Physical notebooks
A physical notebook doesn't need charging and is devoid of distractions, unlike electronic devices. I can easily highlight things, connect ideas with arrows, make marginal notes, scribble questions, and add annotations.
I experimented with physical notebooks earlier this year.
Recording my workouts in the gym, I found I very much enjoyed it. It helped me get away from the phone.
For notes and actual writing, however, I found them stifling. Writing by hand is much slower than using a full keyboard. Worse yet, decades of shaping my brain around the digital writing experience made it very challenging to write without a backspace key at hand. I'm so used to just typing my thoughts and using the backspace key to refine every sentence as I'm writing it.
I honestly don't know what to make of this. Whether it is good, bad or merely is as it is.
Glyn's post made me realise I could probably benefit from challenging that habit, though.