Digital vs. analog BuJo - had to make a call after 6 months of fighting a tablet

I spent half a year bouncing between a Rocketbook and my old Leuchtturm and honestly it drove me nuts. The Rocketbook let me erase stuff but the pens felt awful and the scanning app kept glitching on me. I finally pitched it last month and went back to paper with a simple Muji gel pen. Best decision I've made all year. The physical act of writing just sticks in my brain better and I don't miss the lag or the battery dying. Has anyone else found that going back to basics actually improved their consistency with tracking? Or am I just old fashioned?

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martinez.anna1mo ago

The Rocketbook thing is exactly what I went through too, that scanning app is garbage when you actually need it to work. Going back to paper made me realize how much the digital stuff was getting in the way of actually tracking anything. The lag on the tablet drove me nuts, especially when I was trying to quickly jot down a thought before I forgot it. Paper just lets you flow without any fuss, no waiting for the screen to wake up or the pen to connect. Plus the feeling of ink hitting the page is just satisfying in a way that a stylus on glass never can be. Your brain definitely holds onto things better when you physically write them out, there is actual research on that.

aaron_ellis421mo agoMost Upvoted

Exactly what happened with me @martinez.anna... I bought the Rocketbook last year and got so frustrated with the scanning that I just started taking photos of the pages with my phone instead. The whole point of the thing was to save time and it just made everything slower. Ended up buying a pack of those spiral notebooks from the grocery store for like 3 bucks and I've been using those ever since. The lag is exactly why I stopped using my tablet for notes too... waiting for the screen to turn on kills the flow when you have a random idea at 2am. Paper just works every single time.