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I wonder why people conflate notes with recall. The root is probably that note taking is introduced in school for things you have to recall in exams later. For
by qznc 6y ago
I wonder why people conflate notes with recall. The root is probably that note taking is introduced in school for things you have to recall in exams later. For me the point is that I do not have to train the recalling because I can search my notes instead.
- ghaff 6y agoMaybe taking notes helps me recall things and maybe it doesn't. And maybe writing them gives me better recall than typing and maybe it doesn't. But, yeah. I rake notes to remember things I need to do, to capture some key points, or to be able to "play back" a meeting/talk/etc. to others in either verbal or written form. This is one reason I usually type notes for anything that I'll want to play back in any detail; it's faster and easier to capture more or less verbatim than writing notes by hand. To the degree that recall is helped, I find it's mostly by "processing" the notes in some form.