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by iamleppert 796 days ago
The value of taking notes isn’t in the text content that is produced. It’s in the actual act of taking the notes, that’s what actually creates meaningful connections in your brain and leads to greater insight and on demand memory later.

Would you rather have someone who when asked a question can answer it on demand or someone who has to go searching for a needle in their haystack of voice / text / LLM summarized notes?

That’s why people take notes. Not to produce text. It seems like every few years a new crop of dictation as a service companies crop up and learn this lesson all over again. Users who can’t be bothered to take their own notes never go back searching through them.