“It’s very tempting to type down everything that the lecturer is saying,” she says. “It kind of goes in through your ears and comes out through your fingertips, but you don’t process the incoming information.” But when taking notes by hand, it’s often impossible to write everything down; students have to actively pay attention to the incoming information
In most classes, when I take notes, I try to write them down on paper to retain the information better. In my experience, when typing notes I do not retain all of the information because I am more focused on typing and not the information. When I write on paper, I hold the information a lot better and can reiterate the info myself without looking at notes.