[CodesInChaos]

When designing a character on a computer, you play around with many options, until you settle on one of them. Since you did exactly the same thing for all those variants, it's difficult to remember which one you ultimately picked. Writing down the final result by hand helps distinguish it from the alternatives in your mind.

That's very different from academic lectures, where you are directly told the facts, and not a multitude of equally valid alternatives.

[nextlevelwizard]

If you are just copy pasting off of the board then probably. Hard to say since I have not had experience with both methods in this context.

I still think writing by hand makes stuff stick better especially if you are one of those 500 wpm typists where very little thought goes into typing and it is more like a reflex

[CodesInChaos]

I definitely got more out of paying full attention to lectures in university compared to wasting effort on hand writing notes. And properly typeset lecture notes written by somebody else are much better for studying than the illegible handwritten notes I produce.