I've been using handwriting more often as well. One great benefit is that, unlike when typing, your writing speed is usually slow enough to where your brain ca

I've been using handwriting more often as well. One great benefit is that, unlike when typing, your writing speed is usually slow enough to where your brain can go over it a couple times for sanity checks. There's also the free form advantage (especially if you're just writing notes, it's fine to just draw little diagrams in the corner, scratch things out). Even writing out pseudo-code ends up being very useful. Thinking while staring at an IDE is usually very difficult, I've found. IDEs are great for looking up and reading code (jump to definition, extra metadata) though