Most discussions on the topic would benefit from commenters (and article writers) to specify at the beginning of their text whether they write notes in order to

Most discussions on the topic would benefit from commenters (and article writers) to specify at the beginning of their text whether they write notes in order to also read them later, or whether notes are written without a clear goal of revisiting them later. I like to write notes but barely read them later. If I write on paper, I still take benefit from writing notes I will never read. Writing stuff down is like a forcing function that helps me process information and means I will remember them later, better. As such I don't mind about paper notes not being searchable, indexable, available at random access on many devices, etc. But I can totally see that other folks have different needs there.