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I’m pretty sure this is something that is widely suspected but hard to measure.

I wish we could quantify this.

Handwriting things results in much better retention for me, but the notes are useless. Typed notes are a fantastic, easily edited artifact, but I feel the practice actually lowers my overall comprehension.

I want to concretely know if this is true, or just some weird bias.

I also want a tool that works well with both human memory and editability/searchability.

I’m sure there’s a smartphone app or something like that out there, to snapshot your notes and digitize them.

rocketbooks are built around this exactly, theyre supposed to be reusable notebooks that you write in with one of those erasable pens and at the end of the day you get your phone and scan each page and erase them all ready for the next day

Yes I’d love to hear if anybody found any good note taking apps that do good ocr and that lets the notes be organized and tagged afterwards zettelkasten style.

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