[Eddy_Viscosity2]

I have a similar experience. Programming is best learned by typing, but not good for example, materials science notes, those were better written out by hand.

For some of my undergrad courses we were allowed a 'cheat sheet' which is a single 8.5"x11" sheet of paper that we could write anything we wanted on and could bring in to the exam. It became a skill to carefully put an entire course's worth of information on a single sheet. But for me, interestingly, once I had made this sheet I rarely referred to it in the test. The act of making it was enough for me to remember most of it.