I’m scanning a lot of old notebooks, for personal use. I can’t walk off and read, because I have to switch pages, and click through the driver for each page. I can’t do much work either, for the same reason. What are some things which can fit with the noise and the awkward pacing?
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I know what you’re going through. And I think the answer is “not much.”
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Eating one (1) Double Stuf Oreo per page kinda suits my rhythm.
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Listen to an audiobook, maybe?
Practice something that requires hand-eye coordination (juggling, dancing a coin across your fingers, pen spinning, etc.)?
Balance exercises?
Memorize a poem or a song?
Origami?
Doodling?
Conceptualize a short story?
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Uncover the purpose of the Ripe program?
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Scanning noisy. Not suitable for audiobook. Scanning frequently interrupts anything. Not suitable for regular reading let alone listening.
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I think my best option is typing things up, like chronologies, which don’t require much thought or focus, and don’t require flipping between 2+ files, or cross-checking 2+ parts of 1 file.
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Two words: Insta. Gram.
Each post might take the time needed to scan one page.
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I recommend the TurboScan app instead. Less noisy, faster, easier.
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Another option: Evernote
Both these apps are free
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My current driver is a pain because it requires 2 clicks per page, and it doesn’t allow checking partway, so another driver might help. But I don’t understand how either app would make things less noisy or less awkwardly paced. And if I used Evernote, how hard would it be to get things out of Evernote???
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The apps use your phone camera instead of a camera. Snap a pic, basically.
You can save from Turboscan to PDF.
Evernote is accessible through a browser on your desktop as well as on an app on your phone and seamless migrates between the two. It’s amazing! LOVE evernote. You can also email stuff to anyone from there. There’s a Share button. You can just take pics and load them into a note instead of scanning.
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Here’s an Evernote where I scanned in two post-its with names of makeup products I was considering
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I cannot use telephones and touch-tablets.
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Smoke weed.
Only half joking. If scanning documents seriously annoys you this much, maybe you need to take the edge off.
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Anyway, I scanned another 3 partly-used notebooks today, and typed up part of that timeline.
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Software is such annoying shit these days, living in Oregon is my only defense. So I totally get the frustration as well as the coping mechanism.
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