Except for paper clips or staples but try taking notes on those. Plus index cards are portable, not just in the sense that you can take them anywhere — you can take Evernote anywhere, too. But in how you can put jotter cards pretty much anywhere. You can tack them to a corkboard, lay them out on a table, pop them into your pocket, or tuck them into a book.
Like sticky notes , index cards are remarkably utile and easily adaptable to just about any work style. We already know that writing notes longhand is more effective than using applications because the note-taker must exercise more executive function and is, therefore, more engaged.
Space affects the nearly instantaneous executive decisions of what notes are worth writing. The limited paper real estate is valuable. For many office products and personal productivity products, spending extra to buy something that lasts is important. Spend a couple of extra bucks on a fountain pen and maybe even a pencil. Invest in a good chair.
Cheap legal pads, for instance. Inexpensive scratch pads let you rip and crumple page after page as you hone your argument. Same with index cards. Active creativity is a key soft skill for solving problems.
He spends weeks with these stacks of cards laid out in a grid on his kitchen table, rearranging, reordering, removing, and replacing scenes until the movie in the cards plays out as a perfect movie in his mind.
Only then does he sit down to write the actual script. A lot of writers use index cards. Michal Crichton adored them and used them to sell million books. You probably used index cards to study for the bar. Probably throughout law school. This is the fundamental utility of index cards—that you can move them around. This allows for constant ease of reordering. The inventor of index cards, the 18th-century botanist, Carl Linnaeus — the man who invented the classic taxonomy we still use — was overwhelmed by the information he accumulated in his studies and his classification of plants and plant structure.
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