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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: 4, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:33AM (1 child)
I now use grid-paper composition notebooks. Seeing my old, full, well-abused notebooks on my bookshelf gives me a subtle pleasure.
99.9% of my work is electronic and intangible. These books are my physical memento of that work. I existed. I can prove it. It's in my notebook.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @03:49AM
I love those engineer notepads, the ones with the squares and the neat rip indentation for the rare case where I decide to remove pages. I use them for just about everything as they work well whether I'm needing to graph something or write text at various levels of indentation. They also make it easy for me to add my vertical divider for when I'm using the Cornell note taking system.
Pretty much the only time I don't use them is when I can't find one and I need more pages.