We aren't immortal, so it won't be in your control forever regardless of how you record it. Over long periods of time, the internet is far more accessible for long term storage of someone's writings than physical media. An unsheltered person with a library card could write about themselves and that would be preserved on archive.org, copied by other/future archival websites, copied by individual data hoarding enthusiasts, etc. There is almost zero chance a notebook would survive any significant period of their life, let alone after their death.
Maybe for people with stable families and enough disposable income to easily store boxes of printed material for generations, physical media is a good choice. But not everyone has progeny to pass things on to. Not everyone has the ability to safely and securely store generations of writings. A house fire in your lifetime may be unlikely, but what about in 3 generations worth of houses? And there is zero redundancy. If archive.org shut down tomorrow, there are people on reddit’s r/datahoarder that have copies of various portions of it. Data would be gone, but not all of it. If a tornado hits your house tomorrow, there is no one that has copies of your handwritten notebooks. 100% loss.
We aren't immortal, so it won't be in your control forever regardless of how you record it. Over long periods of time, the internet is far more accessible for long term storage of someone's writings than physical media. An unsheltered person with a library card could write about themselves and that would be preserved on archive.org, copied by other/future archival websites, copied by individual data hoarding enthusiasts, etc. There is almost zero chance a notebook would survive any significant period of their life, let alone after their death.
Maybe for people with stable families and enough disposable income to easily store boxes of printed material for generations, physical media is a good choice. But not everyone has progeny to pass things on to. Not everyone has the ability to safely and securely store generations of writings. A house fire in your lifetime may be unlikely, but what about in 3 generations worth of houses? And there is zero redundancy. If archive.org shut down tomorrow, there are people on reddit’s r/datahoarder that have copies of various portions of it. Data would be gone, but not all of it. If a tornado hits your house tomorrow, there is no one that has copies of your handwritten notebooks. 100% loss.