Back to paper and pencil again is working out just fine.

Done it for many years prior to software purchase. Working with software and experimentation of ideas in my blog put more knowledge of the game in my brain.
Doing on paper gives me a better visual / mental of whats happening in the game.

My paper and pencil method is a combination of sheets of actual lottery draws and the

even-odd /  high-low code I created in my blog here.

Working primarily with exact order ciphering of the ev-od/hi-lo code by position and exact order pairs.