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The Great Planner Debate: Digital Calendar vs. Paper

The Planning Debate: Why I Use Both a Digital Calendar and a Paper Planner

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Alexa Schirm
Dec 02, 2024
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I’m biased—I’ll admit it. I’ve always been a paper person. My brain just processes things better when I write things down.

And guess what? Science agrees.

Research shows that physically writing things down stimulates different areas of the brain than typing. It enhances creativity, learning, and memory in ways that typing just doesn’t.

Now, I’m not here to…

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