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Actually I think one of the main values of note taking isn't that you get notes, it is that engaging your brain to summarize points makes you understand and rem
by atoav 3mo ago
Actually I think one of the main values of note taking isn't that you get notes, it is that engaging your brain to summarize points makes you understand and remember the points better, even if you throw your notes away right after.
It is like writing: One of the main purposes of writing (for me and many others) is that it forces you to structure your thoughts. You could give that task to AI, get the resulting text, but your loss is the lack of clarity you could have gained from doing it yourself.
- jerlam 3mo agoThis is definitely a thing that's been studied in schools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268974 (2019, 238 comments) However, note taking in a business sense is usually different than note taking in an academic sense. Business meetings are more often used to make decisions, unlike academics where lectures are intended to disseminate information.
- atoav 3mo agoI get the difference between business and academic note taking, but I still think it is benefitial to do it yourself in a business meeting, because as you write down the notes you may realize a point hasn't been made as clearly as you wish it was made, which allows you to intervene.
- jerlam 3mo agoI think that's a good case for shared notes, that all the participants can see and agree on. However the AI notes I've seen are compiled long after the meeting is done.