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Writing things by hand leads to better retention, but if you can't remember it...yeah you'll have a fun time finding it again if you have a nontrivial amount of notes and haven't spent a significant amount of time indexing them.

I guess you could OCR them. Best of both worlds.

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You can't OCR handwriting. There are some AIs that do claim handwriting recognition, but I've yet to find a single one that can read my notes.

Yeah I was talking about Google Vision or similar. Though USPS has been doing handwriting recognition since the 80's. I don't it got very good until the late 90's though.

> Though USPS has been doing handwriting recognition since the 80's.

On a very restricted dictionary of possible content, with a pool of people employed to fix anything where the computer is unsure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

I've only recently started using LLMs for OCR, and so far they've done a great job with my handwriting.

I stopped using my Remarkable because I couldn’t read my own writing on it. I have have no problem reading my writing when I write in a physical paper notebook (well, fewer problems). But the resolution either for capture or display on the remarkable makes my somewhat messy writing impossible to read.

So, it’s not only if you can’t remember it… you also have to be able to read it!

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