Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

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The Notes app in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 supports colors for typed text for the first time, providing an option to add new hues to text. Apple offers five colors, including purple, pink, orange, mint, ...

Recently I was in McCosh Hall 10 for the first lecture of PHI 202: Introduction to Moral Philosophy. It’s a large class with around 300 students. The lecture hall is large, with a balcony. I sat near ...

How you prefer to take notes is very personal. Some folks swear by the tactile nature of pen and paper — others feel they’d never be able to keep up without the speed of a keyboard. But is one ...

Windows/OS X/iOS/Android: AudioNote is a simple notepad app designed to take notes during meetings and lectures. On top of tracking when things happened by time, it also records audio and syncs every ...

Handwritten notes help to improve memory power. Even though typing notes enable you to jot more information, handwritten notes are easier to remember.Memory can be managed,organized and enhanced ...

Anyone who has attended a law school lecture in the last decade knows this sight: row after row of students typing on laptops, each taking down a nearly verbatim transcript. At the same time, anyone ...

Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching ...

Google's AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, is one of the few tools that truly gets AI right. I've been using it since before most people even knew about it, and it's completely transformed my ...