I understand where you're coming from, but there is a mindset for some people that note taking isn't all that necessary. It often goes along with the mindset of

I understand where you're coming from, but there is a mindset for some people that note taking isn't all that necessary. It often goes along with the mindset of "enjoy today without worrying about trying to capture it for tomorrow." An example would be those who scoff at trying to capture everything on film and forgetting to enjoy the experience. The opposing mindset is also valid, of course. Different strokes. As an aside, there are also so many ways that archiving is automated these days that many things we used to have to manually take note of are automatically and indefinitely searchable.