NO TECH MAGAZINE https://www.notechmagazine.com We believe in progress and technology Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 The Art of Indexing Your Paper Notes https://www.notechmagazine.com/2019/09/the-art-of-indexing-your-paper-notes.html Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:46:09 +0000 https://www.notechmagazine.com/?p=4354 “One of the biggest advantage of electronic documents has always been that they’re easy to search. Good ol’ Ctrl-F has probably saved millions of hours since its invention. But what if you’d rather have something on paper, but you still need to be able to search it? I don’t have a keyboard and a little display in the front of my notebooks, but I do have an index, and in a large number of cases it works nearly as well.”

“The index seems like a lost art nowadays with so many references moving online. Maybe that’s not so surprising: making a generally good index is quite difficult and historically has been a profession, and there’s actually an organization called the American Society of Indexers. But if you just want to help yourself find stuff when you put it away in your notebook or binder, it couldn’t be easier to start an index.”

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]]> Why Paper Is Eternal https://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/09/why-paper-is-eternal.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:41:31 +0000 http://notechmagazine.com/2009/09/why-paper-is-eternal.html “There are modes of learning and thinking that at the moment are only available from actual books. There is a kind of deep-dive, meditative reading that’s almost impossible to do on a screen. Without books, students are more likely to do the grazing or quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author’s ideas.” Read: Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books (via). See (and print…) also this 75-page essay: “Hamlet’s Blackberry: why paper is eternal“.

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