[golem14]

What a rabbithole ;) TIL about "Stiefography". I wonder how useful this is. I remember math lectures - typically, our prof used the white^H^H^H^H^Hchalkboard, so I could just write down things fast enough.

There is evidence that typing is actively bad for memory rentention compared to writing things down with a pen. I wonder where Stenography falls in this continuum.

[kqr]

Depends on how it is used! Recording speech nearly verbatim is bad for retention; summarising in own words along the way is good for retention.

Longhand forces summarisation, but it's still possible with shorthand.

[golem14]

I guess the whole point of shorthand is to capture verbatim (at least official stenography in the german Bundestag/rat). I'm not sure if stenographers have enough thought capacity to summarize and write at the same time. That's kindof the question I'm asking myself.

As an aside, can simultaneous translators do summarization ? Or is it trained out of them ?