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do people use whiteboards at home?

You meant, there are people who do have whiteboards at home? ;-)

Earlier I used to have a massive one in the bedroom, because my brain starts kicking in its last ounce of ideas and gotchas just as I'm falling asleep. My wife soon got rid of that and now I have it in my study room.

I love pen/paper, whiteboards, and writing.

I'm contemplating a whiteboard at home. How is handling cleanup from the inevitable marker dust?

It is a very common practice in India to have maids come in everyday and clean the homes. It is also dusty enough in India that we need to clean our floors everyday. That includes any excess generated by the Whiteboard.

I do. I can safely say all my future dwellings will have whiteboards too. Indispensable for me.

An issue with both notebooks and computers is that once I write/draw something, I don’t have the discipline to revisit. Whereas a whiteboard is always in view and I can reorganise it or add to while going about day to day activities.

The only drawback I’m seeing is the more I use it, the more indispensable I find it.

I do have one, but I rarely use it. It's good for WFH, though, because it makes me look smart in meetings.

https://smile.amazon.com/Nu-Board-Size-USA-NAA4N4US08/dp/B07...

I don’t have one, or a good spot for one in my home office. But for a few years I’ve used the notebook linked above.

I know people who are really happy with these, using the Staedtler correctable pens. I prefer a regular pad of paper, but it seems some people are made more comfortable working things out on an erasable medium.

A stack of paper and a 0.5mm HB pencil is the the best of both worlds.

Pencils don't do it for me. I find the color of the text written to be too faint for my comfort. Pens on the other hand write text in bright blue color which is I find more pleasing to read.

I do. I use it for thinking, but also use pen & paper for that. For math, I almost solely use pen & paper. I used to use erasable ballpens, but they have a nasty habit of failing if you leave them in the sun, which happens a lot for me. So now I'm using pencils again.

I hate whiteboards. But I have a blackboard in my office. I would have one at home too, if I had room for it.

I find it focuses the mind just to get my butt out of the office chair and go stand before the blackboard when I confront a thorny problem. It us very likely good for the body as well.

I had one. Currently it's not possible due to size constraints but, evolving something on a big canvas is completely different even when compared to pen and paper.

However, I put pen & paper above whiteboards so, I'm not missing it as I guessed at first.

Yes, several. Apart from self-use, explaining things to a 15 year old and/ or a foreign-to-me gf is solo much easier.

Yes, I always enjoy planning out block diagrams easier with a whiteboard than paper due to easy erasing and colors!

It's the one thing I miss from moving from a home to a condo.

Especially after COVID restrictions went into effect.

I certainly do. I had a big one in my office but I replaced it with a gigantic one.

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