https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away

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“And a study has shown that the fact that you have to be slower when you take notes by hand is what makes it more useful in the long run.”

“When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can,” Mueller tells NPR’s Rachel Martin. “The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective — because you can’t write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them.”