Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall Science Says Start Taking Notes (By Hand)

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

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