notes, longhand or computer
There’s this funny difference between notes I write on computer and notes I write by hand.
The ones that are on the computer is something that will, at some point, evolve to a text intended for others (I’ve never been able to keep a private diary on a computer, I just can’t see the point). I delete a lot. I rephrase a lot. I am always dissatisfied with the result (ie I’m certain this is NOT coherent by any means). And I work on them till I make them into a kind of “end product”, or dismiss them entirely. For me, computer is a tool for work, or communication. I think that this is why I’ve never used a plotting software more than for a month or so (and I’ve always abandoned those half-plotted things in favor of a notebook).
And there are notes I write in notebooks, or just about anywhere. They are barely legible, disjointed, disorganized (more than once, I’ve spent ten minutes trying to figure out What The Heck Is This, then realizing that it is, for example, a sacred language idea I developed for Newil and never used), and very creative (since it is easier to keep writing than to backtrack and scratch out all the inconsistencies). Writing longhand is a record of a thought process, not an end result. (I must admit that I very rarely use the notes I make.)
Editing is mostly longhand, while writing is mostly on computer, which very much complies with this trend.
I wonder, does it work similarly for others? Or are there other differences between writing longand vs. computer? (I refuse to believe that, for anybody, it could be the same.)
