Sometimes a glowing screen can’t replace the feel and flexibility of old fashioned pen and paper. We’ve already talked about some of the best pens for the job, but when you need a good notebook to jot ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I love writing down notes and scribbles on any piece of paper that I find. The only problem with that is ...

2,000 years on, the notebook is still a great solution. From Muji to Moleskine, here’s how to choose a notebook that’s right for you. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to pick a good notebook.

Blame the crowded media landscape, blame the internet, or just blame my demanding cat, but it feels like finding focus is constantly shifting further out of reach. On the one hand, the rise of the ...

New on the App Store is Paper for iPad, made by the team at 53. It’s a gorgeous, simple digital notebook that deliberately ditches features in a bid to keep things simple. The result is something that ...

I've had a long-running dream of entirely ditching my physical notebook for an E Ink tablet, but I've never been able to truly make it work. I first attempted this switch with the first generation ...

From weekly planning to client meetings, I’m still reaching for paper and pen. There's just something about physically writing that works better for my brain—drawing connections, making quick sketches ...

In the article, Modernize your engineer’s notebook, I discussed the basic features and capabilities a modern electronic notebook would need to meet the requirements of the average engineer. A lot of ...

A recent side-by-side comparison of analog paper notebooks vs. mobile digital devices used fMRI neuroimaging to identify specific brain activation differences during memory retrieval. Analog notebook ...

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