Handwriting” moves the arm, the eye and the brain – “Memo & Notebook Techniques” that change your life by daring to go analog

Handwriting has a number of advantages. One is that it leads to self-management and self-analysis, as already mentioned. What did you eat, how much sleep did you get? If you continue to write even simple descriptions, when you feel “in good shape today,” you can look back at your notebook and notice your own rules.

You may know from your body’s physical sensations that the amount of alcohol you consume will not affect you the next day, but if you keep notes, you will be able to understand your body more clearly. If you can quantify your body’s characteristics, such as how many hours of sleep you need to get your work done and how many hours or less you need to sleep the next day, you will be more likely to try to lead a healthy life.

Create a “personal space” instead of a social networking site.

It can also be used for hobbies. When traveling, it is common to visit famous and historic sites and take photos of a sumptuous dinner at a Japanese inn with your smartphone or other devices. In addition, you can write down your impressions in a notebook, or attach a piece of paper from a local snack wrapper or a ticket stub from a ride you took to make your memories even more profound.

Amateur photos taken with a smartphone are common and lack a sense of realism. But if you put them in a notebook, you can look back on memories of the trip and say, ‘The white bean paste was delicious,’ or ‘The snow was falling on the top of the mountain, it was beautiful. We live in an age where anything can be seen on the Internet, but the bag of chopsticks you ate at the inn or the wrapper of a famous confectionary would not have been uploaded.

If you have those things in your notebook, you can recall them in three dimensions and think back that you had a rich trip. In fact, even if you go there and it is all crowded with inbound tourists, you can look back and say that you had a good trip if you extract the memories of the fun you had. Even if your notebook gets wet from the rain and the writing gets blurry, you can look back on it with a rich feeling.

With the recent popularity of social networking, there is a tendency for people to compete with each other to see who they ate with, where they ate, and what they ate, as if it were a matter of status. Taking a step back from such a trend, notebooks allow people to find enjoyment in their own private space.

If you think that other people are watching you on social networking sites, you will end up forcing yourself to eat things you don’t want to eat. It disturbs your pace, makes it less enjoyable, and eventually you stop. If you are in your own private space, there is no shame in eating “curry soba at Fuji Soba” or “negitoro donburi at Sukiya”. I can write it down plainly and without pretension because no one can see it. All I have to do is look back and secretly laugh, saying, ‘I go to standing buckwheat noodle restaurants too much. And since the notebook is closed, I don’t have the stress of being compared to others.”