The physical act of writing things out activates pathways in the brain different from those activated when typing on a keyboard.
I keyboard or thumb-type almost everything. The one exception: When I’m at a conference or doing a face-to-face interview, I write the notes by hand using a stylus on my iPad and the Notability app. Notability doesn’t do handwriting recognition, but it captures images of what I write and saves them as PDFs. However, I had problems with that system at my last conference.
What’s Lost As Handwriting Fades
told you so
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David Cheatley: I learned years ago that if I wanted to remember something I had to imagine a piece of paper and a pen in my hand, then imagine writing each letter and word. Then I could remember WITHOUT the paper.via plus.google.com
John Said: cool. i will try that technique +David Cheatleyvia plus.google.com
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Ordinal M.: Field Notes (who make notebooks, for stationery-impaired readers) have the motto “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now”.via plus.google.com
Alfred Poor: This certainly aligns with my experience.via plus.google.com
John Said: +1ed this.via plus.google.com
Richard Adhikari: Wonder about the effect of cuneiform characters…squiggly line, cat, sphinx, double squiggly line, bird-headed human…via plus.google.com
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