2023-07-02 Sunday - On The Importance of Taking Notes

 

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This blog post is my follow-up comment/reply to Werner's recent article

Today, I noted Werner's post on LinkedIn....

2023-06-30 Werner Vogels: A few words on taking notes
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wernervogels_a-few-words-on-taking-notes-activity-7080158996879310848-eAGc
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/06/a-few-words-on-taking-notes.html
"As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes."

Here are some of the article citations I've collected over the years...

2021-03-19: Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval
Front. Behav. Neurosci., 19 March 2021
Sec. Learning and Memory
Volume 15 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.634158
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.634158/full
A recent study by Kuniyoshi Sakai, titled Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval, actually showed higher retention and recall for subjects that used pen and paper versus a keyboard, or tablet and stylus.

2017-07-07 HBR: The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal, by Dan Ciampa
https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-more-senior-your-job-title-the-more-you-need-to-keep-a-journal


2015-02-19 Richard Branson (LinkedIn post): The Importance Of Taking Notes
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/importance-taking-notes-richard-branson/


2014-07-04 Psychology Today: Step Away From The Keyboard: How Our Hands Affect Our Brains
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/thinking-about-kids/201407/step-away-the-keyboard-how-our-hands-affect-our-brains
Nancy Darling, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Oberlin College.


2014-06-03 Scientific American: A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/
"New research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer (Princeton, UCLA) demonstrates that students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more."


2014-04-23 Psychological Science (Volume 25, Issue 6): The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614524581
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614524581


2014-09-12 The Benefits Of Writing With Good Old Fashioned Pen And Paper
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/writing-on-paper_n_5797506
“learning and remembering course material, the pen is mightier than the keyboard,” according to Indiana University’s School of Medicine.
https://www.academia.edu/6273095/The_Pen_Is_Mightier_Than_The_Keyboard_Advantages_of_Longhand_Over_Laptop_Note_Taking

2011-01-24 Better learning through handwriting, The University of Stavanger
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110119095458.htm
Written by Trond Egil Toft; translation by Astri Sivertsen

2010-04-01 Digitizing Literacy: Reflections on the Haptics of Writing
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/9927


2007-09-04 Workshop "Supporting Human Memory with Interactive Systems"
HCI Conference, Lancaster, UK
Does Taking Notes Help You Remember Better? Exploring How Note Taking Relates to Memory
https://diuf.unifr.ch/people/lalanned/MeMos07/files/kalnikaite.pdf


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_(memory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modality_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer-appropriate_processing