Illustrator, ecology nut, and a bit of gardening (zone 4b in USA). Nice to meet ya!

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • For me it’s mostly the ease of it. I’m the type to get very bogged down by (perceived) steps, hurdles, and visual overstimulation. An illustration:

    Notebook

    • Find pen or pencil
    • Find the page you need
    • Go

    Tablet/Etc

    • Is it charged
    • Specific pen only
    • Keyboard needs pairing
    • Is keyboard charged
    • It wants to update now, awesome
    • Turn it on, see ten unrelated apps --> forget what I’m doing
    • App randomly decides it needs internet access
    • Probably have to deal with syncing now
    • etc etc
    • (another ‘me’ problem: I get really hung up on trying to format things digitally, which takes time way from what I’m supposed to be doing)

    Now, there are certainly benefits to writing things out digitally, especially when searchability is key. Any important info in any of my booklets that I might need to find later on gets typed up or entered into a spreadsheet where applicable. Not the most efficient way to do things, I suppose. 😅

    In general though: I just like being able to look down and see a thing I’ve written, rather than needing to wake up a device, open a program, or otherwise fiddle with a screen, especially while multitasking.