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Re:Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your... by jerf on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:00PM (#18143168)
"Since handwriting is so laborious, it leaves LESS time for thinking about what to write down, not more."

A bit in undergrad but quite a lot in grad school, I ended up stopping taking notes. I discovered I was better off engaging completely in class, and consulting the textbooks if necessary, than trying to multitask learning and taking notes. YMMV; I can easily believe there are people who had the exact opposite experience, that note taking radically improved their retention. I'm just saying that such experience is definitely not universal.

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Re:Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your... by spunker540 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:36PM (#18143435)
I was the same way for the most part, I'd skip taking notes unless a teacher was making a very important point that I knew I wouldn't remember or wouldn't be able to look up later. But most of the time if it was important the teacher wouldn't just say it once and never touch on it again!
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