The article reads like a paid sponsorship ad written by someone who sees it as the bullshit it is. Sticky notes are already in the 21st century and work as needed.
but, but, but… you can’t connect them to an app 😢
I know right? TIL that applications, image scanning, OCR, taking pictures, erasable pens, stickier adhesive, and plasticized paper are 21st century inventions.
Sticky notes are perfect as they are, if you want to have that information on a computer, write it on the computer… Pointless ewaste.
solutions in search of a problem
This isn’t ewaste. This is reusable paper and erasable pens. The OCR comes from an app on your phone.
Sure the whole concept is a bit suspect and wasteful. But there’s nothing here that’s ewaste.
I almost want to create an open source project for this.
I’m thinking a single README.md that walks you through each step of:
- Write the note on sticky with pencil
- Take picture with phone camera
- Store/send picture however you want
- Use eraser to clear sticky
I mean, handwriting note taking has been around for a long time. Doonesbury has a famous cartoon making fun of the Apple Newton’s handwriting recognition (“egg freckles?”) dating back to (checks) 1993.
erasable pens
Did they forget that pencils exist?
ETA: dry erase and chalk mediums would also like a word
