Hey just wondering who writes on their hand any more to remember stuff or has mobile phone/tablet technology taken over? Last minute reminders - Is it your hand, post-it note or has technology taken over?
If technology has taken over which apps for Apple/Android are the best to help you get organised/to remember?
Fixed! Thanks never wrote that word on my hand!
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triggered
I'm more likely to have my phone than a pen if I'm anywhere other than my work desk. So work notes: notebook. Other notes: phone.
yep - not very often though
ColorNote on mobile
Post-it/sticky notes/memo at work,
Don't really carry a pen around (unless it's in my bag), do you?
What with? I don't carry a pen anymore.
What number pen do you carry?
Always. You can lose a note/your phone, etc. It's rare to lose your hand
And if you do, there's a 50% chance that you lost the hand without the writing.
I like those odds
I think we should start a war on sweaty hands.
Who's in, show of hands?
And even if you lose the one with the writing you can still carry the lost one with the other hand..
Yes, and you'll need to as well, otherwise how are you going to write on your pen-holding hand?
Using the right application there will a copy on the cloud if you loose your phone.
When I was in school there was talk of ink poisoning whenever drawing on skin was mentioned or done, so I never got into the habit.
I like to use Samsung's Memo app for reminders and notes. Before that I used a small sheet of notepad paper.
Was this in preschool when you were still putting you hand in your mouth
All the friggin time at work.
I write words on my forearm / wrist rather than my hand, because I wash my hands regularly (countless times) each day, meaning any important notes on my hands would be washed off.
OCD? What if you have hairy forarms? Oh the struggles!
I use my phone. I SMS myself.. oh look! Yay! I got sms.. oh its only me
only before a school test
I had a situation the other day whereI was I the middle of going through for a quote on the phone from a major national insurance company. Their computers suddenly crashed so the quote obviously couldn't be continued. I suggested he contact me the following day on our landline number - his answer was " I can't as we have no pens or paper in the office to write it on"
Needless to say we have gone elsewhere for our insurance! Thought technology had moved forward, not backwards.
Name and shame.
Didn't he have a personal phone? Didn't even need a smart phone.
Just to give you the other side of the coin, I've worked on a lot of implementations for call centre software overseas and it was common for their security protocols to prohibit pens, paper, notepads, phones on the call centre floor. Reason being, if there was any data which was considered private or billing details exposed on the system, or they had to capture billing details like credit card numbers, etc, they didn't want the operators to be able to write it down for future fraudulent use. Hence why no pens, paper, smartphones, etc on the floor
So, it's not them being cheap or technology going backwards, they're actually tying to safeguard your data
Ahh, thanks for the insight.
Never. If I have to take a note I'll just type it into the Notes app on my phone.
No. Ink is poisonous.
It's not really poisonous, that is depending on the ink you're using
It isn't poisoness at all. Assuming you don't ingest it…
I write my address on my arm so if I get too drunk and can't string a few words together I just show the taxi driver or divvy van driver my arm so I can get home.
How many times have you been raped?
Waiting for gene enhancement therapy to activate eidetic memory. Often forget to write things down.
I use Google Keep for it. I like how you can share the note on that with others and how you can use it on multiple devices (phone, tablet, PC)
Funny, only yesterday night, I was having a laugh about this, when watching this doco on the exclusive Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel - A Very British Hotel.
The night-time housekeeping supervisor was jotting every request by the guests on her hand … see at 24:32 and 25:28, and I was thinking, wouldn't she run out of palm real estate at that rate! :-)
So yes, obviously, there are still people who write on their hands/palms.
A friend of mine back in the uni days also had the habit of jotting down quick notes on his hand, and on occasions would have the back of his hand completely covered when he couldn't find of chance to transfer the notes to somewhere more permanent.
Mind you it's ~20 years ago though.
Yeah, same here, back in uni days, I had acquaintances that did that, not that unusual then.
Using Google keep on my phone but I still write on my hand sometimes for speeches
I am always writing on myself haha. I usually write on my inner forearm though as I use hand sanitiser at work a lot.
My workmates actually told me they thought I had a tattoo on my forearm for the first few months before it came up in conversation and I told them it was just pen haha
I wrote my number on a girl's arm last weekend, when she didn't have her phone (and couldn't remember her number). Sadly it may have rubbed off from her vomit as I haven't heard from her.
I was a bit dubious about this until the word "vomit". Then it all clicked into place and I realised that I've been there and done that. One tip for you… If you are there to hold her hair back when vomit exudes, you are golden! ;-)
Yeah true story. I was cutting my friend's lunch. He was dealing with the vomit.
Haven't inked myself since I was a tiny kid…
Not on hand. I carry a small notebook and a couple of pens in my handbag.
I'm way old school. Gen X but I'm more like baby boomer.
Pen on whatever over electronics any day.
Twenty years ago, I was like "oh yeah! electronic note taking, emails, uploads, even sharing" (back then it was distribution lists)
Then I grew up and realised that the pen and paper version is a lot more practical in most circumstances. The apps and smart devices still come into play here and there, but when you have two kids and a shopping trolley, yet only 55 minutes to get the shopping done for the whole week, the last thing you want is to juggle a phone and try not to smash it on the shop floor (or against the head of one of the misbehaving kids ;-) ). In those circumstances a piece of paper and a pencil (to cross things out) works a lot better.
Oh, forgot to mention, you can give the kids the pencil and grab a bit of cardboard from one of the supermarket shelves so they can scribble. It keeps them happy and distracted for a lot longer than a phone that has your shopping list on it. They won't let you look at your phone once it's theirs anyway.
My father, as an Anglican minister, often conducts wedding ceremonies. He will always write the bride and grooms names on his hand just in case.
Ross would have appreciated that.
I still tie a bow to my finger
I don't write on my hand, i rarely even write on paper these days
Are you one of those people who writes in other people's walls then?
Don't know what that is supposed to mean
all the time, if i don't have a piece of paper on me.then it stays in my pocket or bag/wallet.unless i have a task list going I'd never go into my phone to check what it is that i have to remember. I'd forget to remember the thing i have to remember. :)
Me, I do.
"W" = buy from woolworths a prepaid credit card to the value of $25 so that I can use that to pay for my VPN :-)
ps, they only go as low as $50 these days.
always do cant be bothered getting my phone out sometimes
I think you mean their.