Going-analog update

Here and here are my first posts about "going analog." Some updated notes: Most importantly: I'm still doing this.1 I find it more efficient and more pleasant to manage my to-dos with pen and paper. I almost never referred to completed to-do items after the fact: here as elsewhere, I had the feeling of aggregating valuable data, but almost never actually used that data.2 Having stretches of screen-free time is great, but a stretch of analog time interrupted by focused computer time seems to give at least most of the same benefits.3 There seems to be something distinctively valuable about avoiding the phone (and "content feeds" on any device). Here is James Somers usefully speculating about how generative AI could help motivated people use screens less, especially by making it easier to translate between digital and analog representations of things. Imagine generating a printout of your digitally maintained to-do list in the morning, annotating it throughout the day, and then sending a…