Calendar, notes, task management
A paper planner is all three apps.
Analog trends
The Washington Post reports on six analog trends: print books, film cameras, letters and postcards, pens and stationery, vinyl, and “collecting” (e.g., matchbooks).
Digital vs. analog Nancy
In today’s Nancy, children debate the advantages of reading in pixels and print. Highly inventive stuff from Olivia Jaimes.
Disses, digital and analog
In tonight’s debate, Elizabeth Warren called Pete Buttigieg’s healthcare plan “a PowerPoint.” She likened Amy Klobuchar’s healthcare plan to a Post-it Note.
Analog rising
“Sales of stationery and cards are actually up among younger and youngish people”: so says Marketplace Morning Report.
Analog strong
“Never underestimate the power of a State Department guy with a pad and pen”: Anne Gearan, Washington Post reporter, speaking on MSNBC last night.
“Twelve chatty letters”
Cell-phone outage in Dingburg, but Zippy is quite at home with the printed (or handwritten) page.
Postage due
From Zippy: where do you put the stamp? Inside or outside the envelope?
A timely notepad
A Time Secretary, notepad and clock, as seen in the movies.
Pen, notebook, cursive
A.O. Scott, New York Times film critic, keeping it analog.
Non-metaphorical sharpening
John Dickerson: “School is starting again and I am sharpening my pencils. That’s not a metaphor. I am actually sharpening pencils.”
The Lettermate
Yes, you could just put a piece of lined paper in the envelope to use as a guide, but why would you, when you can use a nifty tool instead?
“All this analog stuff next door”
Erik Spiekermann: “We have a dozen presses, lots of paper, lots of type, and I spend all my time looking at a fucking screen? It’s ridiculous.”
A 1957 Mongol advertisement
The importance of being analog.
NYT morgue
“I’m about 10 years behind in my refiling.”
xednI drawkcaB ehT
An analog-world tool: Merriam-Webster’s Backward Index.
“Here’s a post that might make you think of candy cigarettes”
Vinyl and turntables for the young.
Paper, +1
Lucy Kellaway prefers paper calendars to digital ones.
Naked City Rolodex
Is it really a Rolodex? This device might have to be called a rotational address-retrieval management system.
Buehner’s Office Supply
“A window into a world where analog was king.”
SSNs
A 1938 photograph.
Print as the new vinyl
From an e-mail by an “industry insider”: “Long-term there’s no future in printed books.”
Charles Simic on writing by hand
“[A] scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil are more preferable for philosophizing than typing the same words down.”
Young-adult letters
A Boston Globe article on young-adult letter-writers.
Moleskine app
“To my mind, the design involves the same analog-to-digital mistake that Apple’s Notes app makes.”
Digital natives and typewriters
“[A]s someone who remembers Eaton’s Corrasable Bond, the tedium of centering titles, the far greater tedium of retyping whole pages after dropping a line in transcription, and the sheer racket, I feel no nostalgia for the typewriter as an object of use.”
"I even use . . . chalk"
Low-tech teaching
Virignia Heffernan on the telephone
The disappearing analog telephone call
Of time and The Honeymooners
Analog and digital time
Virginia Heffernan on datebooks
Google Calendar doesn't compare