Why would those factors be any different when taking notes on a laptop? It is still on the screen/document somewhere, and it still looks like something.
The problem is that word processors and word wrap make it too easy to move text, destroying the absolute and sometimes even relative position.
Much of human memory evolved to remember locations, and almost all of the top memory competitors use locality association ("Memory Palace"/loci) as their primary method.
Much of human memory evolved to remember locations, and almost all of the top memory competitors use locality association ("Memory Palace"/loci) as their primary method.