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Posted by dwwoelfel 12 hours ago

Writing by hand is good for your brain(nealstephenson.substack.com)
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t1234s 7 hours ago|
Is there an online support group for people who have been on the keyboard so long that their penmanship looks more like klingon than english? Is there a way to correct this?
msum 5 hours ago|
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ShipVoicedev 6 hours ago||
I completely agree with this, but where do I start if I have terrible handwriting and never really learned cursive properly?
Dependance 9 hours ago||
I have always found interesting that we thing as equivalent "different parts of the brain light up" and "good for the brain". I say this as someone who has an tiny knowledge of neuroscience, but wouldn't you want sometimes to have low brain activity, for certain things?

Having the brain making more connexions and using more resources to do the same thing could be seen, from one point of view, as waste ?

Not that I disagree with the article, of course. Test results speak for themselves, but for example, when I am writing stories, do I need to "better remember" them, or do I need to go faster through my first draft ? (3 years and counting at the moment...wish me luck !)

boogieknite 5 hours ago||
im right-handed and was taught to write by a left-handed parent so i have a goofy technique where i have my hand above the line like a lefty. this causes me to write the letter "s" backwards, from bottom to top
tim-projects 10 hours ago||
I'd rather learn a language than write with a pen. In my life at least, writing with a pen is now depreceated. Maybe writing left handed would be worth it but I can't think of another good reason to bring it back.
criddell 10 hours ago|
Why would I ride my bicycle anywhere when I have a car?
tim-projects 51 minutes ago||
Not sure the intent of the question. Is the pen the car or the bicycle?

To me bicycles are for health and for short distances. Cars are for heavy objects and long distances.

I used to ride bicycles to the train station, then get a train to another city and ride it on the other side. Which kind of alters that.

Essentially for me at least, bicycles and cars have entirely different uses.

A pen on the other hand, is just a worse version of a keyboard. Unless I'm signing a document. Though as the years pass, that is increasingly done digitally and often doesn't even involve hand movements that anywhere near resemble pen use.

patrickscoleman 10 hours ago||
I like writing by hand and now it’s easier than ever to just take a picture and give it to an LLM for a transcription if you need it on your phone/computer. Small local models work well for this too.
_joel 10 hours ago||
Probably one of the best interview questions that I've been asked over the years, is to write a script (can't remember the purpose) in bash, using pen and paper.

Really made me think hard.

malomalsky 11 hours ago||
I like handwriting, but it struggles when you need to copy it in your obsidian
malfist 11 hours ago||
Rocketbook has some products that promise to help with this here. I've tried them and found them high friction but it might be worth it to you.

There's also the pens that use cameras and special papers like livescribe (I think?) but I didn't love those either.

criddell 6 hours ago|||
It's a bummer that Apple Pencil support isn't better in the iPadOS version of Obsidian.
murat124 11 hours ago|||
Take a pic of the pages, extract text.
plastic-enjoyer 10 hours ago||
I just take a photo and let an LLM transcribe it
BiraIgnacio 9 hours ago||
> Don’t worry about conserving paper

The best suggestion, thank you

snorbleck 9 hours ago|
not only writing, but drawing, art, putting a pen or pencil to paper/tablet and just flowing is great to keep the brain muscle active.
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