Use the Medium Method to Line up Digital Notes With Pen and Paper
While we love digital tools, there is also a lot to be said for the simplicity of good old pens and paper . Rather than choosing one or the other for your notes and day to day tasks, get the best of both worlds with the middle method.
There are so many digital tools out there to help you organize your notes and tasks, and these tools are great. They send you reminders. They help automate your to-do list. They allow you to access your notes across multiple devices. However, writing things down on paper can help you focus and outline ideas . It will also help you learn more effectively . To take advantage of the best of both worlds, writer Chad Hall offers his Medium Method technique. Here’s what you need to get started and the gist of how it works:
- Main Notebook: Every day, you jot everything down here: quick ideas, assignments, sketches. It is mostly filled with scraps throughout the day. This is the basis of the entire method. The main notebook also has a daily note of last minute tasks.
- Travel notebook: A small pocket notebook that you always carry with you. Take quick notes and then transfer them to your main notebook.
- Digital To Do List / Calendar : Obviously, this is where you keep your tasks, events, and other elements of your schedule. At the end of the day, go through your main notebook and add any tasks or events.
- Long-term digital preservation : Use Evernote or OneNote to digitize the most important elements from your main notebook.
If you’re like me, you already use both paper and digital notes to jot down notes and tasks throughout the day. It’s so easy to get disorganized, which is why Hall’s method is so smart. You can tweak it a bit here and there to suit your preference, but overall it is effective for integrating both environments in a structured and organized manner.
This is just a minor breakdown. Hall has more details on the method at the link below.
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