Well, I disagree. I can't CTRL-F my paper notes, and I've got a ton of them. I need to digitize them, fortunately Google Lens can actually understand most of my scribbles, which is really impressive.
I do like sketching ideas on paper, can't do it as fast on a computer. I tried the Note 9 with its stylus, it's rather good, but the screen is too small.
Try Livescribe. I've been using it for years & I can sort of CTRL-F (CMD-F) my notes. I usually export notes to people. I'm surprise more technologies like livescribe doesn't exist.
OMG, I can't believe I forgot about these smart pens! I remember reading about one ~15 years ago and thinking "who would ever need this?". And somehow I never came across them again, wow.
It might actually be a game changer for my notes/sketches!
Read that and wondered why you would struggle with moving the cursor one character forward. Then realized that I live in Emacs and that you had meant something else;)
I do like sketching ideas on paper, can't do it as fast on a computer. I tried the Note 9 with its stylus, it's rather good, but the screen is too small.