Paper or digital notes? How to get the best of both worlds

Rasmus Ursem
6 min readJan 29, 2023

I am always trying to optimize my work processes to make them faster, more reliable, and yield better outcomes. One of my key processes is how I take meeting notes and store them for later retrieval. From a top-level perspective, you can either do handwritten notes on paper or digital notes in some sort of note-taking system. Both have their advantages and disadvantages — this article describes how to mix them to get the best of both worlds.

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Rasmus Ursem

Computer & data scientist, writer, thinker, photographer, and generally curious about life and the wet matter between our ears — in short, I’m a poly-geek :-)