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Practicing safe tactile, now, are we?

Kudos on the diversity of your keyboard colors.... <coughs>

Not exactly related, but I went through a phase where I thought writing and/or doodling on a 3x5 card, and uploading a photo thereof might be an interesting twist on this activity.

Example: https://midnight.pub/posts/962

(click on image link therein)

There can be a strong element of content planning required given editing consists of either starting all over again, or being able to tolerate inevitable smudge :-) if/when erasing pencil, or cross-outs if/when working with ink.

(Of course, as usual, dialing down the pickiness slash concern with what others might think is the most effective prescription....)

So between that planning and the execution, it's a much slower approach to this. But despite winding up being of lesser word count, I suspect I'd feel I was getting more from experiencing others' handwriting and/or doodles.

I even spent some time creating a stand to hold my phone facing down so I could take a photo of a 3x5 card from a consistent distance with zero hand quiver.

(I went with phone over computer because the camera in the latter produces photos not nearly as crisp.)

For me, the biggest detractor was my wife is (to put it mildly) almost never impressed when my attention is other than her/our direction, and whereas I can mostly conceal this activity when it's screen/keyboard, standing over a phone stand perched over a 3x5 card is more than a little obvious evidence that my attention/focus has been elsewhere.

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I stil have saved on google drive the two page index card "zine" you did. Issue 6 of The Zine Around The Corner was "the lo fi issue" and I said you should make one. I think that issue of my zine was seven index card of random scribbles and writing, and you did a two-pager, I may still have it.

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> I stil have saved on google drive the two page index card
> "zine" you did. Issue 6 of The Zine Around The Corner was
> "the lo fi issue" and I said you should make one. I think
> that issue of my zine was seven index card of random
> scribbles and writing, and you did a two-pager, I may
> still have it.

Huh. I don't even remember doing that. Maybe I'll feel motivated once the honey do list approaches single digits. Might be a nice supplement to the no-html blog site.

(He says, suddenly remember neither will ever be found in search results, making them essentially non-existent anyway....)

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