A week without digital notes. The after

A micro-update nobody asked for.

A few months ago I spent a week without digital notes and measured my notebook like it owed me something. The post is here, if you missed it.

I said at the end that I changed almost nothing. That was true. But “almost” has been sitting in the back of my head.

So here’s the data.

Bullet points, the vengeance

Bullet point usage went way up. This was not a conscious decision, and I have no tidy explanation for this.

The only thing that I associate this with is the Logseq structure. Not only I started using way more bullet points to resamble the block logic in Logseq, but I even started making nested bullet points.

But then why I did not use any during my digital detox week, and more when Logseq was available? These kind questions keep me up at night.

But what about pages used?

This data didn’t make it into the original post, but someone asked me about this so you’re getting it now.

Analog usage went up. Not to the heights of the challenge week (that was a forced experiment, with no other outlet), but meaningfully above where it started.

The notebook is getting more use than before.

Whether that means the experiment worked or I just used the excuse to buy a new notebook, it will remain a mistery.

In the end

I ended the original post saying that I changed almost nothing, because that is how I felt at the time. Immediately after the self-imposed return to technology, my life felt going back to its original axis.

More than 8 years in research should have taught me not to wave those statement without proof: the data says something changedso it must mean that something recalibrated. Which is either the best possible outcome of an experiment or a sign I should run more of them.