Opinion and commentary about Mac and iOS applications, publishing and content consumption behavior, web and cloud architectures
October 24, 2011

Information: Paper vs Digital

From an old Make issue:

[…] our real challenge today is not to use less paper but to keep less paper.

For ubiquitous capture, planning, and brainstorming, paper’s tought to beat. For storage, searching, and editing, the point goes to digital.

Considering information works the same way as code—written once, read many times—an optimal system should allow the usage of both mediums. For a while I thought Livescribe could be the solution. But in the end it didn’t work for me.