I always took/take notes by hand. lets me doodle symbolic representations and conceptual ideas. I am pretty sure it helps with retention too.
I know people can do the same with like tablets and shit, but I keep old notebooks and go through them and have those highlighting tabs.
and like, I don’t have to turn on a device or charge something or try to scroll around to find what I’m looking for in these eternal loops on screens. so much of my work and life is already digital, it feels like having analog components lets me use a different part of my brain that has spare capacity to rework and analyze information or just play with it in a meditative way.
I dunno this probably all screams old man brain, but I’m like the info technical skills guy among family and friends, so my resistance to doing everything digital comes from long, deep experience of digital shit breaking or wiping at the worst time lol
There’s research to suggest your point but anecdotally my typing and general document editor skills basically always far exceeded my handwriting skills and the exact moment I could use a laptop to do notes my grades shot up immensely. I think it might just be processing info from auditory or visual into words. I.e., people would learn the same amount doing the same amount of notes on a computer but are just incapable of doing that. Either because they type slow or, if they type fast, they get stuck for 45 seconds on some formatting, bringing the average WPM way down and also making them lose the focus in a way that doesn’t really exist in handwriting. Or they just get distracted by browsing Amazon during a boring lecture.
Same, my cheat code to exams was to just write down 1-2 page cheat sheet with some color coding, then I’d read through it a few times while I read the actual material once or twice
I dunno this probably all screams old man brain, but I’m like the info technical skills guy among family and friends, so my resistance to doing everything digital comes from long, deep experience of digital shit breaking or wiping at the worst time lol
As a fellow tech, my reliance on digital stuff is due to constantly damaging/losing non-digital alternatives. Sure the digital stuff self-breaks occasionally but I find it much easier to have a paranoid number of digital backups over analogue ones.
Edit: I also have smart home stuff and other things setup locally partially out of interest and partially because some of the functionality it brings helps me cover some weaknesses caused by ADHD though
I always took/take notes by hand. lets me doodle symbolic representations and conceptual ideas. I am pretty sure it helps with retention too.
I know people can do the same with like tablets and shit, but I keep old notebooks and go through them and have those highlighting tabs.
and like, I don’t have to turn on a device or charge something or try to scroll around to find what I’m looking for in these eternal loops on screens. so much of my work and life is already digital, it feels like having analog components lets me use a different part of my brain that has spare capacity to rework and analyze information or just play with it in a meditative way.
I dunno this probably all screams old man brain, but I’m like the info technical skills guy among family and friends, so my resistance to doing everything digital comes from long, deep experience of digital shit breaking or wiping at the worst time lol
A lot of the time when I take notes, I know I’m never going to read them — but the act of writing them helps me to memorize them so I don’t need to
There’s research to suggest your point but anecdotally my typing and general document editor skills basically always far exceeded my handwriting skills and the exact moment I could use a laptop to do notes my grades shot up immensely. I think it might just be processing info from auditory or visual into words. I.e., people would learn the same amount doing the same amount of notes on a computer but are just incapable of doing that. Either because they type slow or, if they type fast, they get stuck for 45 seconds on some formatting, bringing the average WPM way down and also making them lose the focus in a way that doesn’t really exist in handwriting. Or they just get distracted by browsing Amazon during a boring lecture.
Same, my cheat code to exams was to just write down 1-2 page cheat sheet with some color coding, then I’d read through it a few times while I read the actual material once or twice
As a fellow tech, my reliance on digital stuff is due to constantly damaging/losing non-digital alternatives. Sure the digital stuff self-breaks occasionally but I find it much easier to have a paranoid number of digital backups over analogue ones.
Edit: I also have smart home stuff and other things setup locally partially out of interest and partially because some of the functionality it brings helps me cover some weaknesses caused by ADHD though