RE: https://zeroes.ca/@VeeRat/116217413471160500

at university i realized that i rarely reread the mountain of notes i took.

the act of taking notes was sufficient. writing by hand is slow. that slowness forces you to process the info well enough to summarize it.

i was lucky to have a laptop early and for a while tried using it for notes and i was fast enough to transcribe every word. even though typing is physical, i didn’t need to summarize at all. i remembered nothing, and pretty quickly went back to my notebooks and fountain pens.