Why Analog?

I first came upon Bullet Journalling as a means to keep my sanity - a standard to-do list wasn't cutting it. When you don't complete a task on a to-do list, it feels like a failure, but Bullet Journalling lets you migrate or schedule or delegate the task, and also record what you did do, perhaps instead.

Like just about anybody else, I'm attached to my smartphone, my Outlook Calendar is the biggest controller of my schedule, emails create tasks at work and otherwise. I do have separate work and personal accounts, to say nothing of social media or other membership accounts that could influence where my time goes. Digital records are searchable, and even if all that data wasn't under a common umbrella or dashboard, at least they'd all be in the same place and easily accessible, right?

I have my reasons to try and put my life together in a paper notebook. Here are some:

I can however, think of some drawbacks: