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That's... not true, and not supported by the study you linked. In the study, there was no measured difference in memory between the two note taking styles; the

by pflats 8y ago

That's... not true, and not supported by the study you linked. In the study, there was no measured difference in memory between the two note taking styles; the groups' factual scores were not significantly different in any of the tests. Where things vary is the non-memory questions: are the notes helping you understand and apply the material better, and how advantageous are they to your studying? In both of those categories, handwritten notes win out. Finally, there is no "because"; the authors can only speculate. I am not aware of any studies that can actually purport to say why handwritten notes are better.

Frost1x 8y ago
I find handwritten notes far worse. For me, I'd prefer a full set of notes to a be provided if feasible (a lecture, etc.) but that doesn't work in everyday conversational meetings. I instead prefer typing notes because it requires little cognative load to accomplish and is quite efficient. The point of notes for me is to refresh my memory after the fact because my human memory isn't reliable enough. They are especially useful for capturing finer quantified details. During a typical lecture or discussion/meeting, I find it far more useful focus most my cognitative abilities on what's being described/presented to me and only commit critical information to memory. The majority of my energy spent is processing the language and concepts discussed, linking language and concepts togethe, connecting those concepts with previous experiences/knowledge, and generating new ideas/relationships... all in what seems a fairly random order as needed. This allows you to ask informed questions when I see things missing in the conceptual structure I have that I might otherwise miss later and have no means to extract that information because my notes may not have the relationship or fact I need. Later on when reviewing the information, I utilize the critical conceptual structure/framework I created about the discussion to reason through it. If there are pieces of information missing, it's pretty obvious and I can refer to my notes. If I missed the concept I at least have a second shot at recovering the idea from highly detailed and clear to read notes I took. I could not imagine trying to write LaTeX on the fly during a in depth mathematics discussion, I'd have far too much focus on syntax formulating correct notation structures than the concept at hand when it's far easier to translate using a camera phone or handwriting.

by pflats 8y ago

Frost1x 8y ago

I find handwritten notes far worse. For me, I'd prefer a full set of notes to a be provided if feasible (a lecture, etc.) but that doesn't work in everyday conversational meetings. I instead prefer typing notes because it requires little cognative load to accomplish and is quite efficient. The point of notes for me is to refresh my memory after the fact because my human memory isn't reliable enough. They are especially useful for capturing finer quantified details. During a typical lecture or discussion/meeting, I find it far more useful focus most my cognitative abilities on what's being described/presented to me and only commit critical information to memory. The majority of my energy spent is processing the language and concepts discussed, linking language and concepts togethe, connecting those concepts with previous experiences/knowledge, and generating new ideas/relationships... all in what seems a fairly random order as needed. This allows you to ask informed questions when I see things missing in the conceptual structure I have that I might otherwise miss later and have no means to extract that information because my notes may not have the relationship or fact I need. Later on when reviewing the information, I utilize the critical conceptual structure/framework I created about the discussion to reason through it. If there are pieces of information missing, it's pretty obvious and I can refer to my notes. If I missed the concept I at least have a second shot at recovering the idea from highly detailed and clear to read notes I took. I could not imagine trying to write LaTeX on the fly during a in depth mathematics discussion, I'd have far too much focus on syntax formulating correct notation structures than the concept at hand when it's far easier to translate using a camera phone or handwriting.