![]() I've found that angling the screen down so that I can't see it either and then maintaining normal eye contact with everyone makes the problem mostly go away. I've similarly noticed that interacting with someone wearing a bluetooth headset or smart glasses is off-putting no matter how much they indicate they are paying attention and not watching or listening to something I can't see. And it makes some sense when I am talking to a person and they keep glancing at their laptop, phone, or watch it's exceedingly off-putting and they seem disengaged even in cases when other evidence indicates they are paying attention. It's like hearing half a phone conversation - your brain works overtime trying to reconstruct the part it can't see. I've noticed that as well - no matter how engaged someone is, if there is a screen that they can see but others can't then it is an information imbalance that is disruptive to the normal flow of conversation. I can search them, retain them, review them, summarize them.īut I'm aware that I'll always look disengaged on my laptop compared to somebody with their notebook :-/ I can type fast and asynchronously while I listen and look at the speaker. My circles are potatoes, my lines are squiggles, and everything is all over the place and disheartening to read (I love whiteboards but it's a whole other thing, somehow) * My handwriting sucks (I literally can't read my own I'm 42yo - don't tell me to practice / it'll improve, just don't be that arrogant ignoramus ). the message was - it looks unprofessional, stop it. I was pulled by my manager for being disrespectful after the meeting I showed him the notes and demonstrated that I was by far the most attention / had the best retention / was most involved in the meeting, but still. I've noticed that early on 15 years ago, I was keeping notes on a "feature phone with sliding keyboard". Sure, it’s an extra step to digitize the important stuff, but I think it’s worth it. Even in the age of Zoom, I angle my camera to ensure it’s obvious I’m taking notes. Now I carry an attaché case and use larger, more professional looking, notebooks. If it was a negative interaction, people started to be much more careful about what they were saying. If it was a positive or neutral conversation, people tended to show appreciation for my interest in what was being said. When I pulled out my pad, I could see body language and word choices change almost immediately. IME a phone signals disengagement, while a notepad signals the opposite. The effects of pulling out a notepad and jotting notes are markedly different than pulling out a phone or tablet- especially in a conversation or meeting. ![]() I’d take notes each day, at the beginning of each new day, I’d carry any necessary information from the previous day to the next page and then fold the previous page along the diagonal, alternating the folds right and left each day. ![]() When I was in the Navy I carried a little memoranda pad in my left breast pocket. ![]() The thing is still so cool and I want it, but maybe I'll wait for version 3 or 4 and extra disposable income that will go to waste on it! I've bought enough tablets and laptops with writable screens and MS surfaces over the years to know that I still never drew or took notes with the pen, but I still keep buying them hoping I will. If I was somewhere without a computer, then I wouldn't be carrying this big tablet on me. I realize I won't base all my life and processes around this one device that is also supposedly hard to get info off of easily into things like OneNote. The problem keeps coming back to the fact that I'm absolutely not the type of person who wants to carry that thing around everywhere and who likes or is good at hand writing or drawing. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks. I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. ![]()
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