Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Typing lets you capture more words per minute, which feels productive. Handwriting forces you to slow down and summarize in real time, which means your brain is doing the work of compressing the idea as it lands. That compression is what makes it memorable later.
Shade Zahrai walks through the research on this and adds a practical layer most note-takers skip: using COLOR to mark different categories of information so your visual memory gets recruited too. Two simple shifts that change how much of a lecture, meeting, or book you actually retain a week later.
Worth trying for one week and comparing the difference yourself.
Typing lets you capture more words per minute, which feels productive. Handwriting forces you to slow down and summarize in real time, which means your brain is doing the work of compressing the idea as it lands. That compression is what makes it memorable later.
Shade Zahrai walks through the research on this and adds a practical layer most note-takers skip: using COLOR to mark different categories of information so your visual memory gets recruited too. Two simple shifts that change how much of a lecture, meeting, or book you actually retain a week later.
Worth trying for one week and comparing the difference yourself.
