<story><title>The importance of handwriting is now better understood</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/14/the-importance-of-handwriting-is-becoming-better-understood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silcoon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve direct experience on the power of handwriting to memorise concepts. When at the UNI, I was studying CS (while working part-time) less than 10 ya, and classes where full of laptops. I was take notes during lectures using only pen and paper and similarly I was taking my notes about the main concepts from the courses books. Then I was re-writing them again in a more summarised way, and then underline this notes and study all together. The power of handwriting is real and I&amp;#x27;m still taking notes and keeping a journal nowadays.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad that this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution, is going to get lost in future generations. This is because companies are making deals with schools to provide them software and devices. In a better world the school system would be one of the top 2 priority of every country, and receive adeguate public investments to don&amp;#x27;t have to adapt their education systems at companies product, to satisfy the greediness of entrepreneurs and investors.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t abandon pen and paper, don&amp;#x27;t regress human brain capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jncfhnb</author><text>I dislike these kind of statements. I can’t take notes. I learned very explicitly that I will retain information much better if I take no effort to write it down and instead just focus and listen. If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless.&lt;p&gt;That is to say, it’s all just personal preference. Explore and exploit what works for you.</text></comment>
<story><title>The importance of handwriting is now better understood</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/14/the-importance-of-handwriting-is-becoming-better-understood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silcoon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve direct experience on the power of handwriting to memorise concepts. When at the UNI, I was studying CS (while working part-time) less than 10 ya, and classes where full of laptops. I was take notes during lectures using only pen and paper and similarly I was taking my notes about the main concepts from the courses books. Then I was re-writing them again in a more summarised way, and then underline this notes and study all together. The power of handwriting is real and I&amp;#x27;m still taking notes and keeping a journal nowadays.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad that this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution, is going to get lost in future generations. This is because companies are making deals with schools to provide them software and devices. In a better world the school system would be one of the top 2 priority of every country, and receive adeguate public investments to don&amp;#x27;t have to adapt their education systems at companies product, to satisfy the greediness of entrepreneurs and investors.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t abandon pen and paper, don&amp;#x27;t regress human brain capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eddy_Viscosity2</author><text>In some classes we were allowed to bring in our own formula sheets. We could write whatever we wanted on a single sheet of paper (both sides). So of course we condensed the entire course to fit on that with tiny writing. But after putting in all that effort to make this sheet, I rarely even looked at in during the test. I didn&amp;#x27;t need to -- the act of making it made it stick in my brain.</text></comment>