LOL! Manually adding tags tends to be reflex for me when I'm typing, but not when I'm actually writing things in a notebook. XD
I've got rather terrible handwriting, so attempting to write in italics wouldn't be a particularly dependable way of indicating it for me. And since I don't much like all caps as a way of emphasizing things (Not that I never use it casually, but I think it can easily become too much and distracting in either fiction or nonfiction formal writing. Too reminiscent of people WHO SHOUT ALL THE TIME FOR NO REASON on forums and in e-mails. Sets the wrong tone. :P), I don't tend to do it much in notebooks either. Asterisks, while useful in some places online, require too many strokes to be really helpful when writing with pen/pencil.
So yeah. That is my ridiculously long-winded way of saying that I tend to use the way that's quickest and breaks my flow of thought the least: underlining. ^^
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Date: 2012-03-14 01:32 am (UTC)I've got rather terrible handwriting, so attempting to write in italics wouldn't be a particularly dependable way of indicating it for me. And since I don't much like all caps as a way of emphasizing things (Not that I never use it casually, but I think it can easily become too much and distracting in either fiction or nonfiction formal writing. Too reminiscent of people WHO SHOUT ALL THE TIME FOR NO REASON on forums and in e-mails. Sets the wrong tone. :P), I don't tend to do it much in notebooks either. Asterisks, while useful in some places online, require too many strokes to be really helpful when writing with pen/pencil.
So yeah. That is my ridiculously long-winded way of saying that I tend to use the way that's quickest and breaks my flow of thought the least: underlining. ^^