In the information age, why do we still use paper notebooks?

The development of the Internet has been advancing rapidly in recent years, and information terminals such as mobile phones seem to have become indispensable tools in everyone's daily lives. Communication, shopping, recording, payment, travel, reading...Almost all aspects related to life can be solved with a mobile phone.

More and more information is highly electronic. In contrast, paper media seems to be a tasteless one. But in fact, there is now an interesting phenomenon-although most of the people who are exposed to electronic information are young people, it is the same group of people who also love a paper notebook called "handbook".

They keep accounts, keep memos, keep diaries, keep travel notes in their accounts...almost everything about their lives. Perhaps most of the young people who have entered the "handbook" are just chasing trends, or out of special feelings for writing and writing, but in fact, there is a deeper meaning in it.

Recording is more than just recording. The recorded information can not only become our memories, but can also be more effective. Why do we need paper notebooks? There are three reasons.

Reason 1: simple recording

Those of us who have come from school days have long been accustomed to a notebook in Chinese, a notebook in mathematics, and a notebook in English... There will also be a composition book, a vocabulary book, a collection of wrong questions and so on... This categorized recording method allows us to look up information that seems more clue.

Reason 2: Chain memory brought by paper records

If it's just the benefit of "getting it on the go", then the electronic recording method is obviously not inferior to the paper notebook, and in many cases the recording efficiency is still higher than that of the paper notebook. But the advantage of paper records that an electronic record can never achieve is that it can bring chain memories.

Whether it's handwriting or pasting materials onto a notebook, the process of processing this information leaves traces of memory. When you turn over this page of the notebook, you can feel the mood and environment when you were recording.

Reason 3: Become a creative material library

What is creativity? Nobuyuki Okuno told us with a famous line by American advertising master James Webb Young: "The so-called creativity is just a recombination of original elements." Even though the essence of creativity is so simple, it seems that it is not easy for us to generate creativity.

Persisting in the record itself prompts you to think. Over time, this ordinary notebook at hand becomes your life material library, and it will become the cornerstone of your creativity.

In any case, recording information is not just for recording. The recorded information should give full play to its value. As long as the information in our own material library can be used and become the seed of knowledge production, it is of extraordinary significance.