Digital Notes vs Handwriting Notes (which should you do?)

For me, the problem with digital notes is that studying through a screen makes me very tired very fast, unlike paper notes. Paper notes work better for me, but each person is different and has their own methods. Love your videos :)

As a medical student and a part-time youtuber, i was recently thinking on buying an iPad for my studies, perfect video and perfect timing!

For these 2 years in med uni I learnt that there's no wrong way of studying or way of writing notes,all methods are good as soon as they help at least one person to understand the material (the only wrong methong is to procrastinate all year and learn everything for a day). Also taking paper notes, I think on this way, help in one type of disciplines and digital notes in others,even no notes help. I see this in me-I don't like to write in anatomy,when I see it,I immediately understand it (okay,maybe sometimes I add like a summary),biochemistry in pictures and some little explanation is bomb and physiology-writing and imagination hahah. Summary: It doesn't matter how you learnt something,it matters that you did it,it worked for you and you enjoyed the process of learning the particular thing. No work=no results P.S. Happy and calm celebrations!

I love that I can bring all my books, notes and presentations within my iPad. It's much lighter than if I had handwritten everything. But I miss having the satisfaction paper and pen gives somehow. Especially because I like to spread out all my notes, books and other sources all over the table. It's a hard toss

i honestly prefer handwrtitten notes, it makes me feel like i'm actually learning something vs when i take digital notes i always assosiate it with entertainment and lost focus easily because of all the other apps and websites i couls access.

I work with a hybrid system, I take handwritten notes in lectures and use digital notes for seminar prep. Especially as a law student, the digital notes for my readings helps me to work efficiently and stops there being 10 pages of notes from a reading. The handwritten lectures get typed up as well as part of revision and help to memorise the key info.

After researching on youtube for months on digital note taking and whether or not to make the switch... I recently purchased an iPad for digital note-taking, and it has been one best decisions I've ever made. When you buy the right accessories for your iPad, it can make the whole process better. It is WAY more organized, and I find it fun to be able to easily access pictures on google to help you with your notes. This is one of those decisions that I do not regret and has made school and note taking a lot more fun.

Honestly once I bought my iPad and GoodNotes I have never been more efficient. I like paper notes but there’s nothing better than having infinite amounts of “paper” all on a single light weight device

I made handwritten notes for years. YEARS. Not during lectures but during my study time as well. But this year it felt like it was too much. I was running short on time and writing was time-consuming, not to mention the awful hand cramps I got when trying to cram studying for my midterm into a few days. So I was forced to just type my notes since I had no time and then found out it was AMAZING. Less time, looks a lot neater, and it's very easy to share with my friends or access from any device. You can even easily search for keywords!! Now I just have empty notebooks lying around :))

I think writting done notes on paper really helps in storing information. However, the amount of material and content you receive in university is a lot. Its nearly impossible to sit down and make proper notes like high school. So students then tend to move to digital note taking which makes the process a bit fast.

I take handwritten notes and then type them on my computer at home, so they’re cleaner. I noticed when I started doing this that the information would stay in my mind with this method

You’re correct that digital note taking is more efficient but I think handwriting notes taught you how to filter what was important to write down thus not just typing everything verbatim. Otherwise a person who went straight to digital note taking will zone out the material and end up with lots of information but no real association with the material. I’ve been guilty of this where I had accidentally typing my conversation with my roommate while listening to a lecture.

⏰Timestamps for the Viewers:⏰ 0:00 Intro 0:27 Handwritten + memorization 5:55 Digital Notes: the obvious pros 9:55 Digital notes: an aid to active recall and spaced repetition 12:40 Conclusions

i use both - [ too broke to buy an ipad with an apple pencil ] when I'm listening to lectures i take down notes handwritten bcs for its efficient or just maybe i am used to that kind of setup eversince highschool days, and i use digital notes when i re-organize my notes for my upcoming exams. both are just effective for me. this video is really great bcs it showcase the pros and cons of both methods, i feel like this video isn't bias at all! ps: i'm an engineering student, but i really love watching your videos!

I spent my first year of uni experimenting. I started handwriting everything, and typing up summaries, but found that since everything that was said was important I was missing information. I then switched to typing during the lectures and writing out a condensed version (ideally within 24 hours) so I still got the benefit of handwriting info, but I found with readings and assignments, I got weeks behind in writing it out. For the past two years I have typed my notes, and also typed my summaries, and I've found it works for me. Especially since for some of my courses, we wouldn't find out the purpose of the lectures until the last one in a chunk, so I really just needed to write down everything that was said so I could later go through and figure out what was important!

I prefered just using papers to write but this channels videos has showed me much benefits of digit notes and question banks , i really appreciate nasir's work , thanks

This has always been a problem for me especially in high school, but this video really summarised both the positives and cons of both so thank you Nasir!

Hand written notes are definitely better retained. My biggest issue with hand written notes in school was efficiency. I could type out notes much faster in sequence with the prof speaking. And then, I would try visualize what I typed out when I was studying. That worked for me really well

Okay but my biggest struggle is always trying to “condense”. I always end up finding that everything is important and it’s my biggest struggle while studying 😭

I’m still in secondary school but the methods that works for me is after having the notes taken in school. I convert them into ANKI questions and test myself again and again with the in-built algorithm then come exam time I use ppqs and that literally works for me every single time. great vid as usual nasir, how did your SJT exam go?