I've been trying to make all-digital work for years. I feel like there are significant downsides with digital that make me want to go back to paper (but if I were to print out everything I read, my small apartment would be overflowing in a year and it seems so wasteful).
One of the most obvious benefits to paper that comes to mind is the ability to lay multiple non-sequential pages (from the same paper and from other papers) side-by-side. That spatial aspect isn't replicable afaict and I definitely feel like it limits me in many ways.
Completely agree on both points. Another thing for me is just grabbing a paper and a pen and knowing that's all I can do for the next X minutes. No digital distractions possible.
It's pretty replicable - you just open the same document multiple times ! (Of course it's often easier to run out of screen space than out of desk space…)
One of the most obvious benefits to paper that comes to mind is the ability to lay multiple non-sequential pages (from the same paper and from other papers) side-by-side. That spatial aspect isn't replicable afaict and I definitely feel like it limits me in many ways.