5 reasons why paper notebook convenient electronic schedulers
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
We are in the "Layfhakere" repeatedly raised the topic of choice of the ideal tool for scheduling tasks. It may be, and task lists and shopping lists, and work on projects and flow of small tasks for multiple users. But there are at least 5 reasons that no application - either mobile or desktop - you do not replace entries on plain paper.
I have three years continuously experimented with different lists, todo-trackers and project management systems. I tried the system and applications like Basecamp, Trello, Wunderlist / Wunderkit, AnyDO - and I was not happy with any of them until the end. And that's why:
1. Synchronization
Simple paper notebook is not necessary to synchronize with nothing. You can open any page, take notes long or short, add bookmarks or pictures - there are no restrictions. it is necessary to synchronize the mobile and desktop application anyway. Often, you need to synchronize the Internet or secondary connection.
Why do many different unnecessary movements, remember passwords, create connections or wait for sync / upload / download?
2. If the Internet disappeared - the whole world can wait (actually not)
Point about the timing blends in with the need for internet access (especially if it is a tasking system, contact management, tasks and transactions). Notebook - "a warm and analog," he does not require anything from you except a pen or pencil, and your own thoughts, tasks, observation and contact information, which you set out on paper. You can not answer a man on a phone call, say "you know, I had half a day there is no Internet, so I can not tell you how many stages in our previous transaction."
We are so accustomed to the fact that the Internet is everywhere and always, that when he was suddenly there - we work stops. But it should not be.
Safety net, task lists and important projects through records in the ordinary paper notebook has saved me over the past six months a lot of time and nerves.
3. Cross-platform
Imagine that you use both Ubuntu, OS X, Android, iOS - and you need a native client for all of these systems. You're right: this is not seen unless the web application in front of us. In a paper in hardcover with razlineennymi or just blank pages do not have this disadvantage. "Device" in this case acts as a pen or pencil, and platform - your brain, memory and thought processes.
4. Changing the OS / control / project / company
When I retired from one Internet project and moved on to another, I had to change the control system tasks and creating lists, because in the new project team used a very different approach and technology. And when the project was more than five, and each of them on goal setting, planning and management looked differently and in a different way controlled everything going on - I had 2 options: either to clutter your laptop a bunch of applications and accounts that I would constantly confused; or trust 80% planning and quick lists paper. I chose the second option - and I do not regret.
Notebook with a calendar, regularly check and replenish the hand, takes only 15 minutes a day - and save time and nerves for a few hours.
5. UI of your dreams
And last on the list, but certainly not the last for me personally, and for many readers' Layfhakera "- is the user interface.
If the notebook you are free to draw all sorts of schemes to make any bookmarks, catalogs, lists, use any date formats, cuts and systematization of data on paper - in any application (desktop, web or mobile - not the essence) you are doomed to fall within the scope of those who for you I came up with the developer.
In half of the representation of developer usability, intuitiveness and speed of interaction radically at odds with your personal performance. Are you willing to spend time and money searching for your dream interface for scheduling cases and setting goals? I was not ready, and because at the end of the winter bought a paper notebook that perfectly take up to today. And I advise you to pay more attention to the paper plan. Ordinary notebook provides greater flexibility and space for ideas and structuring their thoughts, than any application or an electronic system.
Unfortunately (or fortunately - it's how you look), in the world still has a place the analog instruments: proven notebook :)