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Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking?
theodp writes "While waiting to see if the iPad is a game-changer, this CS student continues to take class notes with pen and paper while her fellow students embrace netbooks and notebooks. Why? In addition to finding the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in her mind, there's also the problem of keeping up with the professor: '[While taking notes on a laptop] every five minutes I found myself cursing at not being able to copy the diagram on the board.' So, when it comes to education or business, do you take notes on a notepad/netbook, or stick with good old-fashioned handwriting? Got any tips for making the transition, or arguments for staying the course?"
Well there sparky, two reasons off the top of my head. I would find it quite rude for you to take out your cell phone and interrupt with a 'shook-a-snap' every time I drew a graph or tried to explain plancs constant to 50 other snot nosed punks who want the easy way out. Also do you really think taking a 3mp picture of my whiteboard time-line of civil war battles is efficient? Maybe you should just _KEEP_UP_