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If you're a student looking for the most advanced learning machine available, give laptops a pass—and pick up an age-old notebook.
You'll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand, according to a study by UCLA, giving you an edge on your tests.
That spiral-bound stack of paper has other advantages, too: You can't zone out on Facebook and Instagram during a lecture, so you are more likely to stay focused.
Putting pen to paper requires a different kind of mental processing than typing does. Sure, typing on a laptop gives you the power to record a lecture nearly word for word—but transcribing verbatim is associated with what's called "shallow cognitive processing." The words may be captured on your screen, but they basically went in one ear and out the other.
Also, your notebook doesn't run Fortnite.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:29AM
I have off-and-on tried top get into just photographing my notes for long-term storage. It works well when I do it, I just tend to stop doing it after a while.
Some of the best luck I've had was using Windows Journal on an old XP "transformer" laptop/tablet with a decent Wacom digitizer built into the screen - all the benefits of free-form hand-written notes, with the added ability to move things around the page, cut&paste, etc. (and since it's XP, not much temptation to connect it to the internet) I just wish I could get my old notes out into a more modern and cross-platform format. Xournal, svg, whatever. With modern high-dpi screens such a thing would be even better.