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Typing on a keyboard (hardware or virtual) might be quicker than writing things out with pen and paper, but for learning and long-term memory, handwriting trumps the keyboard. The Wall Street Journal ...

The Notes app bundled with the iPhone is great for quick little notes, but it hasn’t really changed since the original iPhone, and offers very few options other than a selection of three fonts. For ...

If you need a break from typing, start talking to your Mac with VoiceType AI, a voice-to-text tool with lifetime access on ...

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 ...

Note taking—whether in classrooms or boardrooms—is a highly personalized style of recording information for later review. Despite the proliferation of cheap and portable computers many people remain ...

Rapidly becoming a lost art, handwriting engages the mind in ways typing simply can’t replicate. In A Nutshell Handwriting ...

Now that so many students and employees have laptops, those leather-bound notebooks are going the way of the rotary dial. But does typing notes capture the concepts of a lecture or meeting as well as ...

Imagine you’re a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple ...

While the stalwart keyboard is still the main data entry tool on all our devices, typing your notes into Evernote can be slow and, on smartphones and tablets, cumbersome. Fortunately, your favorite ...