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I'm still writing my journals on paper. Makes it about a decade of notebooks, most of them Field Notes, kept in the archival wooden boxes[1]. Writing by hand helps me remember and process life. Finishing notebooks give me the feeling of closing a chapter on those problems, at least for a moment.Paper notebooks are also a very flexible medium, as most teenagers can confirm: you can take train tickets and elmers-glue them in there to commemorate a trip, or make sketches to illustrate some anecdote. Want five different kinds of checkboxes, and lines connecting paragraphs? You can do it in a paper notebook, and probably not in Notion or other digital tools.Collecting ephemera in notebooks has been really satisfying, so I've been experimenting with something new: a tiny printer. In particular, the Liene Pearl N200 Pro. Here's some of that experience.It's a little printer. Exactly the height of an iPhone 16, and about twice its thickness. The photos it prints are small - 2x3 inches. My…

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