I'm 100% onboard with the paper paradigm for my project-related note-taking, but I've moved over to using GoodNotes with my iPad and Pencil[1] over actual paper and graphite. It's basically as good as the real thing, but you also get a pristine PDF version of your notebook once you're done with your doodling. No doubt that there's a charm to leafing through a pile of your ragged, dog-eared Moleskines as an occasional nostalgia trip, but I've found myself returning to my old notebooks far more often now that they're sitting in a folder on my Dropbox.
In searching for an app like this, one of my main requirements was that the app produce standard data as output, so that if it shut down or the company went out of business all my journals would still be safe. Fortunately, the PDFs GoodNotes spits out are basically pristine copies of its internal data model: vector graphics, multiple layers (including one for the paper texture), and even hidden OCR text.
I also moved to GoodNotes entirely. It combines all the benefits of paper and digital: it's exactly as flexible as paper, but also editable. This is a huge deal: I can refine my handwritten notes by easily moving things around, adding paragraphs, etc. I can also reorder and move pages around between notebooks easily, and it's fully searchable. the iPad Pro having the same size as a sheet of paper, the Apple Pencil being the first stylus that has low enough latency to make you forget it's not a real pen, and well-designed software like GoodNotes really has been a revolutionary combination for me.
In searching for an app like this, one of my main requirements was that the app produce standard data as output, so that if it shut down or the company went out of business all my journals would still be safe. Fortunately, the PDFs GoodNotes spits out are basically pristine copies of its internal data model: vector graphics, multiple layers (including one for the paper texture), and even hidden OCR text.
[1]: http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/08/30/on-the-wonders-of-d...