What is better? Digital Notes or Handwritten Notes?

Introduction:

Welcome to my post #3, I hope you find this post an area to relax, sit back, chill and just read something fun, interesting, and important that will keep you stress-free and motivated. I hope you enjoy this post!

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For a long time, there has been a debate about what is better taking down digital notes or writing them manually. I like taking down digital notes. Well just like everything it also has its pros and cons!

Digital NoteNote-Taking

Digital note-taking has always fascinated me from a very young age (prolly cause CBSE does not let us take our devices), I enjoyed typing down notes on word documents and saving them in an organized manner, it gave that sense of satisfaction that would make you say "noice," digital note-taking has been revolutionized in so many ways and it is growing into becoming a huge industry faster than my hair. Apple introduced their overprice apple pen in 2015, and holy the amount of time I have wasted in watching study youtube channels writing "aesthetically" on their fancy iPads using their Apple pens that I sure can't afford but that is besides the point.

In my opinion, the best parts about digital note-taking are:

1. Organization: you can easily segregate your notes and make different sections and store them in such a way that they are at your fingertips.

2. Variety & Features: There is an end number of applications that provide the best interface for digital note-taking and billions of tools that you can use to make your notes creative and look pleasing.

3. "All in One": Imagine having 8 notebooks worth of content in one single device, how cool is that, You can store all your notes, textbooks, practice papers, and whatnot in a single device!

Hand writing Notes:

POV: you sit down with all the fanciest stationary and a book and plan on writing "aesthetic" notes, but you realize your hair will turn grey by the time you finish.

Handwriting notes is something I would give up on very quickly, but according to my research handwriting notes has proven to have multiple benefits. Although writing notes can be a time-consuming process It has truckloads of benefits, so here are some pros I found are very relatable:

1. Emotional Attachment: Handwriting is like a unique ID, a fingerprint of our existence, a story into where we’ve come from and how we learned to communicate with others, that feeling of writing on paper is a vibe.

2. Engagement: When we write something by hand rather than entering it on a computer or touching a screen, our brain participates differently. Writing increases memory and your brain predilects towards actively participating while writing, leading you to retain more information.

3. Smooth Flow of Thoughts: Handwriting can assist us in slowing down and thoroughly immersing ourselves in our ideas. Have you ever heard someone say something like, "I type as quickly as I think"? This is certainly an asset for transcribing spoken words, but thoughts need to completely develop before being written down in sentences, and writing by hand provides that space.

Conclusion:

In my humble opinion, each of these note-taking methods has it is pros and cons and this topic is ambiguous, at the end of the day you need aesthetic notes to flex, haha I am joking, This brings an ends to this post, I hope you enjoyed it! This post has been written on Saturday, 20/11/2021. please do share feedback about the post, stay tuned for more, and show some love by spreading the word about it! Thanks, Rhythm Doshi