For friends who like to keep a diary, choosing a paper diary or an electronic diary is always a question that needs to be considered repeatedly. The main reason is that they each have functions that are difficult for the other to replace. Today, the curator compares their respective characteristics from the perspectives of temperature, freedom, adjustment, carrier, efficiency, preservation, retrieval, and sharing, and finally summarizes how to integrate the two. .

01

temperature

It is often heard that the characters are like their own, and every character has a temperature. Through the strength, structure, font, size, speed, etc. of the writing, the inner state of the writer can be seen, such as joy, anger, sadness, sadness, sadness, etc. All can flow on the paper through the tip of the pen, and then you can quickly return to the current state when you read it later. Hand accounts that you play more often have healing functions. Electronic notes, if text is used, because it is standardized, it is always cold; if you choose pictures, audio, video, you will avoid this situation, and your emotions are easier than paper notes Visual display.

02

free

On the blank paper, you can vent at will, the layout is flexible and diverse, the font can be large or small, draw a cute puppy, draw a cute smiling face, random connection of line arrows, various borders and embellishments, How free the brain is, how free the presentation on paper will be. Electronic notes are somewhat limited in this respect. Most platforms can only record linearly. Even if some platforms have material libraries to choose from, they are created by others and may not be suitable for them.

03

Adjustment

In a paper diary, most of the content written is fixed, and it is not convenient to delete and modify. In most cases, the deletion and modification will destroy the beauty of the paper. The electronic diary can be deleted and changed anytime and anywhere, and there will be multiple versions of the backup, which is convenient for comparison. Generally speaking, the content and logic after the change will be more reasonable.

04

Carrier

In addition to text writing, electronic diaries can also use multimedia such as photos, audios, and videos. Different media can be selected according to personal preferences. The paper diary can only display text or graphics (hand-painted / newspaper clipping / hand account), which is relatively inferior.

05

effectiveness

For handwriting, 30-40 characters/min faster, and 80-100 characters/min for typing. Especially with the emergence of various input method dictionaries and the increase in normal input, the input method will become more and more Smart, a sentence may come out as soon as you type two characters, which greatly improves writing efficiency.

06

save

Paper diaries should always take into account the curiosity of family members; they are destroyed by others; damaged or lost when moving; they are lost when they are taken when they go out; pages that have been kept for a long time are yellowed, faded, and scattered. Electronic diaries can be backed up in multiple places such as computers and the cloud. Even in extreme situations such as server failures and data being stolen, there are still remedies.

07

Search

Due to the standardized design of the electronic diary, it is easy to carry out related retrieval and statistics. For example, the number of words, where was I from 1 year ago, what I was doing 5 years ago, what time I wake up every night, what books I have read this year... The paper diary is inherently insufficient on this one.

08

share it

After the electronic diary is finished, you can post the content that is convenient for sharing to Douban, Zhihu, Weibo, Jianshu, WeChat and other platforms to display different life experiences for interested people to browse and refer to. Since there is only one paper diary, it is relatively limited to share and can only be accessed by a small number of people. Even if a famous diary is published, the number of people who buy and read it is quite limited.

09

other

Paper diaries can be used to practice calligraphy, especially in an era when we are less and less writing. It would be commendable to have a channel to practice calligraphy. The electronic diary is relatively more environmentally friendly, and it can protect one point. Intuitively speaking, long-term recording will not change much for electronic notes; and watching a pile of diaries piled up into a hill, the inner satisfaction is still very strong, sitting down for a page when you are old The page flipping is also very nice.

to sum up

Whether it is paper notes or electronic notes, both of them are essentially recording tools. Tools exist for our convenience and efficiency. It is best to choose the one that suits you according to your own purpose. The curator suggests that those who have not tried the electronic diary can try a few more platforms, try for a period of time, and give yourself the opportunity to experience; those who have not written a paper diary, understand Start the bill and keep playing for a while, maybe you will fall in love with it.

In addition, regarding the fusion of paper diaries and electronic diaries, the following three methods are shared for reference:

1. Write directly on the electronic paper, such as Sony's DPT-S1/DPT-RP1 series, the hand feel is still very good, you can directly generate electronic documents after writing;

2. Open the recording software on the touch screen computer to write, such as Microsoft Surface;

3. Install cloud note-taking software such as Daoyun Note and Evernote on your iPad or mobile phone, combined with a capacitive pen to write on it, and integrate paper diary and electronic diary. You need a good capacitor pen to have a better writing experience;

4. Write handwriting on a paper first, and then upload it to the cloud with a scanning tool for backup.