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There’s research that backs you up.
People tend to retain more of their written notes than typed. The act of writing forces you to assimilate and summarize new information on the fly. Typing allows you to take more complete notes closer to a verbatim transcript, but you engage less with what you’ve typed.
https://gradepowerlearning.com/writing-vs-typing-notes-what-is-more-effective/#:~:text=The%20research%20is%20clear%3A%20the,Hard%20to%20believe%3F
Oh yes. The actual craft of writing something down with a pencil does wonders for me to actually remembering stuff.
Yeah the note itself doesn't really matter in my experience, it's the note-taking itself that helps register stuff.
Its your sense of proprioception, too. To write something with pen and paper you have to move your hand in three dimensional space, and this does a TON to engrain the information in your head