This is sad, someone has an experience different from yours and you say "your story seems fake". At least accuse them of something that makes sense, like shilling iPads or something. You picked a part of the story that seems possibly realistic.

When I was in school and university, I wrote notes all the time that I didn't reference, the act of writing things down helped me learn. Reading the notes back didn't really help me learn at all. Rewriting the notes, on the other hand, that really helped.

I don't think writing notes on an iPad would really make any difference for me tbh, if I'm writing something to be referenced, typing it up is better. If I'm writing something not to be referenced, it barely even matters how I write it.

This is actually quite normal. Merely taking notes helps you remember things, so some people take notes simply to help them think through and remember things without ever having any intention of going back to those notes later. Simply the act of taking the notes is the means to the end.

Damn, got me, I was sent by Big iPad!

I took notes my whole life because I went to school a majority of my life - they just always sucked so I did poorly :) Notes help in understanding things but the part where I failed was not rewriting them combined with the fact that I have horrible chicken scratch.

Because writing notes is about clarity of mind not always about referencing them later.

I want ability to refer back to notes but 99% of case I never refer to them