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The act of writing notes with pencil and paper is a ritual that loads information into my brain. But I’m in my 30’s, and while I grew up around and constantly using computers, they were not so ubiquitous as to replace pencil and paper note taking ritual. I wonder what the next generation’s experience has been, is typing their ritual?

I’m in my 40s, but I often transcribed school notes from written to text, and the act of typing them really cemented it in my memory. I even recall flicking my fingers during recall, air typing words. In college I typed everything having a laptop, and I think it had similar value.

Yeah, the act of physically writing (as in not typing) words on paper helps me to remember things better and distill the important parts in my head. Just reading someone else's notes is not as useful for me.

If I don't take notes I instantly tune out of the meeting.

I just type into org-mode. The notes are rarely useful later, but I keep them in a folder that I can grep through.

That's interesting - thanks for sharing! From what we've heard many people actually lose attention, if they have to take notes while focussing on the meeting

reminiscent of "plans are worthless, but planning is essential"