Handwriting Is Here To Stay — Here Are 10 Reasons Why
When was the last time you wrote something by hand?
A note scribbled on a post-it doesn’t count. When was the last time you deliberately sat down to write something, on a piece of paper, with a pen?
In an age of computers, smartphones and tablets, writing by hand isn’t necessary anymore. You can type on a keyboard, on a touchscreen, you can even just speak and the computer will write it for you — all more efficient than taking pen and paper to write something down.
And yet, I write by hand every day. I may not be as analogue as my mother, who writes her grocery shopping lists on a notepad — I use Evernote for that. And I certainly don’t hand draw sales pitches, nor do I handwrite my communication on WhatsApp. And no, I don’t handwrite my blog posts either.
I write by hand in my journal every morning. In meetings every day. On thank you notes. Hell, even on my office (glass) walls.
Originally, I planned this article to be just the usual blog post I write. Dump a few personal impressions on Medium, and hope it performs. But then I googled “benefits of writing by hand” and went down the rabbit hole, reading a whole master’s thesis as well as several other papers, articles on the internet and now I feel like a semi-expert on the topic of hand writing.
