 One of the best things about going digital with my notebooks was ditching that rolling cart that I would lug to the parking lot, hoist up into my car, and drive to my house, only to leave it in the car overnight and then drive it back to school the next day. Let's not even get started on the guilt I would feel the next morning when I would open my car door and see that sad stack of forgotten notebooks staring me in the face. While my wish to not lug that cart home every other day may have been my primary motivation for going digital, it turns out there were a lot of other benefits that led me to develop digital notebooks for all of my subject areas.
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