I personally prefer to take notes digitally, which allows me to search through and organize better. However, when it comes to learning a language or writing fi

I personally prefer to take notes digitally, which allows me to search through and organize better. However, when it comes to learning a language or writing fiction, I really find physically writing on paper much better, especially for retaining new vocabulary in memory and mastering a new alphabet. There is something to be said about the feel of paper, too. If I only have a little notepad in my pocket it helps but if I want to keep something, like a journal, it is nice to search and find the paper that is suitable to the task, which works well with certain inks/pens. Never ocurred to me to keep a log of which notebooks I've used, that's a nice way to compare the experience of different types of binding/papers.