Sounds like you were doing what I did when writing college papers (1968-1973) when I used note cards (no personal computers available). I called it 52 pickup...put my note cards on floor (usually) This goes in beginning, this is next, this is middle, this at end...look at it, nah this trades with that, this goes better toward end, and so forth. Then I could do the paper and have it Almost correct the first time I typed it (manual or electric typewriter). Ah, the memories.....
Oh I did that as well. Did all my college and doctoral work with those note cards. Also wrote and rewrote and rewrote my whole dissertation on a selectric typewriter! Probably 4 years later, it would have all been done on a computer!
Sounds like you were doing what I did when writing college papers (1968-1973) when I used note cards (no personal computers available). I called it 52 pickup...put my note cards on floor (usually) This goes in beginning, this is next, this is middle, this at end...look at it, nah this trades with that, this goes better toward end, and so forth. Then I could do the paper and have it Almost correct the first time I typed it (manual or electric typewriter). Ah, the memories.....
Oh I did that as well. Did all my college and doctoral work with those note cards. Also wrote and rewrote and rewrote my whole dissertation on a selectric typewriter! Probably 4 years later, it would have all been done on a computer!