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Comment by dSebastien | Hacker News Reader

I've chosen to print articles for ~10 years, as it was the easiest for me to read during commute. Content is also much easier to make sense of on paper, as we can scribble notes anywhere. I wish e-readers evolved faster to allow for a similar experience.

Although I've now stopped printing stuff; I care a bit more about the planet than I did back then.

Now I long for solutions to help me curate and organize content.

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It is not only the fact to be able to write all over it (although it is a huge one), but there is something about the haptics and spatial distribution of information on paper that makes me remember content better. For example I know a certain formula was on the lower right hand side of one of the last pages of an article. On the other page was a graph.

That way I retain and find information much easier.

With digital content it is all a blur on the same mini screen of my smart phone.

They should just make reusable printer paper :) would also help the issue of accumulating clutter due to documents you're holding onto "just in case"

Yes!

There was also a satisfaction for me to get rid of the articles I was done with. A bit like this moment in Matrix where Neo says "I know kung-fu" :)

Since then I've realized that just putting stuff inside my head was not the best option; I now prefer to take a lot more notes, and keep those around in Obsidian. There's less knowledge decay that way :)

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