Psychologists Agree: "People Who Use a Paper Agenda Rather than Their Smartphone Have a Different Brain than Others"
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Although digital calendars dominate much of everyday life, there are still people who prefer to hang up and use paper calendars in the kitchen, leave an agenda on the desk or write down hand-written commitments with a pen. Far from being an old fashioned habit, this habit may reflect certain personality traits related to organization, calmness, and the need to maintain a more tangible connection with time. According to Cottonwood Psychology, tho…
Between a person who pulls out his phone to record an appointment and another who calmly opens a small spiral notebook, one quickly made to judge the second "old school". Yet, behind this almost retro gesture hides a very current advantage: a particular way for the brain to store information. Neuroscientists compared, in the laboratory, a calendar written on paper and the same filled on screen, following trace what is played in the memory. The r…
Researchers have discovered that noticing your ideas on paper, instead of the phone can have enormous benefits in terms of not only memory, but also the motivation and way in which you organize your time. Psychologists suggest that handwriting and repeated visual contact with their own plans activate different mental processes compared to simply introducing events into an application.
If everyone chooses their own ways of planning their time schedule and finding a way to remember it, our choice of paper or digital for our agenda is far from trivial.
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