(1) I'm in the process of editing that post and had already taken out the word
hobbyist precisely because it could be construed to mean
dilettante, as you've taken it to mean here and which wasn't my intention at all.
(2) Since your response to my post is making certain of the same points I've just made, and since my purpose was
not to dismiss note-takers or the need for backups, as others have done here, I humbly suggest that you reread it and glean my actual position before investing my words with that of some other adversary.
Backup copies aren't
as necessary for physical books because books are immediately accessible in the physical sense. They don't disappear whenever your host device happens to crash.
That possibility is very real, however, for students who need to review all of their notes again before taking a test or writing a paper.
And while your lack of attachment to your own notes might seem to you to be admirably pragmatic, it is perhaps unrealistic to expect everyone to use and treat their notes exactly as you treat yours.
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Originally Posted by AGB
It has nothing to do with "hobbyists". The solution may be strange for some but it's called "back ups".
What do you do with a written paper? Print it out and archive it physically, or do you resort to digital? What about when writing the paper - do you work on it digitally and rely on digital storage and archiving, or do you type it by hand and/or typewriter?
Btw, I usually take notes on a separate paperpad. And then when I have written what I needed the notes for, I toss them away (or burn them).
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