That has been studied and seems to have been verified: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552125/Revising-exam-DONT-use-laptop-Taking-notes-pen-pa

That has been studied and seems to have been verified: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552125/Revising-exam-DONT-use-laptop-Taking-notes-pen-paper-boosts-memory-ability-understand.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552125/Revis... > The students taking notes the old fashioned way took fewer of them with less verbatim recording, but remembered more facts and understood more concepts from the lecture, according to the study, which is published in the journal Psychological Science.