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From a recent issue of Wired:
Study after study shows we remember things better when we write them—our brain stores the letter-writing motion, which is much more memorable than just the mashing of a key that feels like every other key. We think in fragments, too, in shapes and colors and ideas that just don't come through on a keyboard. "Think about how many things that are built start as a drawing," Bathiche says. "Most things, right? Everything you're wearing probably started as a drawing."
You can't type out the folds of a dress, or the gentle curves of a skyscraper. Drawing with your stubby finger on a touchscreen isn't much better. Humans are tool-based creatures: Our fingers can do amazingly intricate things with a pen, a brush, or a scalpel, that we can't replicate with a mouse or the pads of our fingers. Our computers are giving back that kind of detailed control. In turn, the pen is opening up new ways of digital expression, new tools for communication, new ways to interact with our tech.
My wife's cousin's husband is a cartoonist for the New Yorker. He uses a high-end Wacom digitizer. Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solved?
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:36PM
I do my own kind of pen-based computing: doing math by hand with a fountain pen. But on a more serious note, I prefer to write with a pen, in particular a fountain pen. It's a very pleasant experience. But when productivity is required, I need a keyboard. I'm a fast typist, having learned how to touch type when I was 12, when typewriters were still in vogue, before keyboarding skills were required. But when it comes to drawing, I let someone else do it as I have absolutely no artistic skill whatsoever. I like to say I can't draw a straight line with a paint program.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.