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Handwriting Better for Memory Than Typing

Derek Beres
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Derek Beres:
a freelance writer. He has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing.

A new study collected five hundred data points per second. Handwriting won out.

While tablets are excellent for scrolling through the day’s news, the value of digital versus print has long been debated. Physical books are tactile, which bring readers great pleasure, including ease of annotation, better navigation, and a sense of accomplishment—pages are landmarks, not the infinite scroll of e-books. Your brain maps better with such visual cues.

Then there’s memory. P

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Derek Beres:
a freelance writer. He has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing.
Publish date: 06.11.2020

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