#### Hand writing facilitates understanding since you have to summarize focus on overview and choose what is truly worth noting given the speed of transfer --- Handwriting has been shown to improve retention of information and facilitate greater understanding of material by virtue of the fact that you cannot transcribe all the material seamlessly. To write notes is to listen and then internalize the information, understand it, and in succinct terms describe the most important and pertinent points of the information and your understanding of them. --- Tags: [[Writing]] - [[Note Taking]] - [[Zettelkasten]] Links: [[{ 2020-09-09 How To Take Smart Notes]] References: - [[For useful learning it helps to connect a piece of information to as many meaningful contexts as possible]]