Note-taking on Paper vs on Laptop. What works?

Have so often felt this and discussed with some close friends also.

Typing on screen has always felt less 'substantial'. While it's easier, more so with the extensive usage of smart phone, than writing on paper, it doesn't quite improve our functioning or thinking. The efficiency doesn't quite result into effectiveness.

Here's a bit of research talk about taking notes on paper vs. taking notes on laptop.

A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop

Why Using Pen And Paper, Not Laptops, Boosts Memory: Writing Notes Helps Recall Concepts, Ability To Understand

What's been your experience?

Your memory is a monster!

You heard it right.

I have a profound appreciation for this quote by John Irving:

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

I can, and perhaps even you can, vouch for this. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Your memory has a will of its own. Hard to digest but very very hard to refute.

I am active, I am agile, most often I am alert. However, for long I struggled to get a grip over stuff I would want to do during the day. Why? Because it would be strangely difficult to recall all the different things.

The 11 handles that Cockpit Planner shows on the daily page make it mighty easy for anyone to recall the different things that need to be done on a typical work-day. And when you recall, you are far more likely to do it. Yes, while 'your memory still has you', it offers good access and behaves rather congenially for all practical purposes.

Hope your memory allows you to recall at will in 2015. Hope you and your memory accomplish a good deal!

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