A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)

Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by scarecrowbob on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @12:26AM (#20271176)

Most skills are things that you can get better at.

I bought a nice fountain pen (well, a $14 pilot) and overhauled my cursive writing. It took about 6 weeks and I write pretty legibly in cursive. I'm more legible in various print scripts (that I have also worked on as an adult), but cursive is faster.

Admittedly, that is just an anecdote. But if you're curious, try and get better... you'll likely improve if you actively practice.

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Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by ecspike on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:32PM (#20276679)

I'm also a fountain pen user.

I never liked pure cursive and do a mix, it's more of a print-sive where some letters are always print (F, J, G, Q, a couple others) and others are cursive depending on flow, speed, etc.

I have a bit more practice because I also sketchnote.

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Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:08AM (#20272640)

> but cursive is faster

Have you tested? I recall - maybe a decade ago - seeing a study suggesting that in fact printing individual letters could be faster; I still write in cursive when I need to handwrite though (basically never).

Edit: http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-o... is a good summary; first 2 paras of last section are the TL;DR.

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Re:A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014) by scarecrowbob on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:07AM (#20274969)

No, I haven't actually tested it. Maybe it just feels that way. But it does feel that way.

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