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A comment on Ask HN: What note-taking application do you use?.

Re:Ask HN: What note-taking application do you use? by alphanumeric0 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:14AM (#15263367)
May I suggest taking notes by hand? There was at least one study that determined taking notes by hand forces you to summarize the information, and so you end up increasing your recall as a result. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...)
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Re:Ask HN: What note-taking application do you use? by stewbrew on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:29AM (#15263598)
Humanity survived without apps for quite a long time. I'm not sure though the comparison would yield the same result for information retrieval.
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