Handwriting is good because there's a lot of evidence that if you handwrite your notes that increases retention of knowledge and actually aids understanding of topics. If you pushed me my preference is probably for handwriting notes. From a personal perspective I can of dip in and out of both these methods of note-taking as they both have pros and cons so let's look at what these are.

You can hand-write your notes using pen and paper and use things like colours and spider diagrams or you can type the notes up using anything from Word to note-taking apps like Evernote.

So if we break things down there are really two ways of making notes. Why I Use The iPad Pro 12.9 For Taking Notes Fast forward to today where we have the apple pencil, M1 chips, XDR screens and millions of great learning apps and it's a completely different story but it can be tricky figuring out a workflow that works for you which is why I wanted to share mine. Having something digital that could be used in lectures, on the wards and at home to centralise notes and studying was really helpful but the early iPad models had their limitations meaning I never really used them as much as I'd like. When I was studying medicine I took loads of notes on my old gen one iPad and also made a ton of handwritten notes as I'm pretty old school.

Notability and evernote