[pjmlp]

I usually take notes on paper as well.

Then I either scan them directly to PDF or take to effort to re-write them, if the information is to be better structured or shared with others.

Besides all the benefits mentioned by others, it is also a good way to rest my wrists from just typing.

[linker3000]

Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds another filter/interpretation to the information, and if you choose to remove or rewrite things that now don't seem relevant or accurate (rather than checking with the information giver), there's a risk that the notes become diluted or lose details that are re-graded as unimportant but later turn out to be the opposite.

Always best to write good, efficient, consistently-styled notes once, and annotate changes/corrections on them if they are needed. It saves time too!

[logifail]

> Rewriting contemporary notes some time later adds [...] interpretation to the information..

Isn't this a fairly crucial part of "learning"?

[linker3000]

Sure, write up stuff that supports your referral back to the original notes, or makes corrections and additions - but don't get rid of the original notes or replace them with interpreted copies.

[logifail]

The original article was talking about students learning in lectures. One might presume that the learning process ends with students being tested in a situation where they have no notes of any kind?

If that's true, then there's no point holding on to "the originals", because on the day of the test/exam/whatever, you won't have access to them anyway.

In essence, transferring knowledge from the original lecture via the written notes to ones memory?