Afternoon, Nigel. Interesting question and, I imagine, quite divisive.
I find I work much better on my trusty laptop. Firstly, I have worked on a keyboard since early days on an electric typewriter - the IBM golfball was a favourite. I don’t touch type, but my fingers more or less know their way around. If I write freehand, my handwriting goes for a ball of chalk and I face the prospect of attempting to interpret illegible scrawl. Also, I type faster than I can write legibly, so it’s no contest, really.
Each to our own seems the most sensible adage here.
I can probably type as quickly as I can write, and bear in mind, I will have to type it all anyway at some point (speech to text, don’t even go there), so it comes down to the way different people think and write. Maybe I am just too disorganised in the way I think to be limited to one cursor in one place at a time, but other people work better by having that focus.
It is probably something that could keep psychologists entertained for years.
Afternoon, Nigel. Interesting question and, I imagine, quite divisive.
I find I work much better on my trusty laptop. Firstly, I have worked on a keyboard since early days on an electric typewriter - the IBM golfball was a favourite. I don’t touch type, but my fingers more or less know their way around. If I write freehand, my handwriting goes for a ball of chalk and I face the prospect of attempting to interpret illegible scrawl. Also, I type faster than I can write legibly, so it’s no contest, really.
Each to our own seems the most sensible adage here.
I can probably type as quickly as I can write, and bear in mind, I will have to type it all anyway at some point (speech to text, don’t even go there), so it comes down to the way different people think and write. Maybe I am just too disorganised in the way I think to be limited to one cursor in one place at a time, but other people work better by having that focus.
It is probably something that could keep psychologists entertained for years.