Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting
I will sit there in a meeting (or retrospectively in a university lecture) and regularly derive nothing of value at all from my notes, be they written or typed. It's the media that is wrong, not the note taking medium. You can't rewind a meeting or a lecture. You can't pause to think. You can't review the text in the middle. Everything is immediate, transient. If you lose the pace, then everything after that point is wasted.<p>Lectures and meetings are broken, not the notes.<p>Now I will tend to write up my own notes in my own time on matters (in Pages for lack of any motivation to try anything else).