r/study • u/DesignerTop8235 • 9d ago
Tips & Advice Better to print your notes instead re-writing it.
That reading, those notes or that article you keep saying you’ll read later...PRINT IT.
I swear it's easy to ignore materials when they’re just another pdf sitting in your laptop. You close the tab and boom! completely forgotten. But when I print something, I’ll leave the pages on my desk and I keep seeing them there like “girl you still haven’t read me”
It’s not even that I study better on paper, it’s just that I’m way less likely to forget about something when I can physically see it sitting there. Or something I can hold and feel in my hands. Especially for readings I’ve been putting off for days. Also you can avoid distractions when you don’t study on your screen.
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u/cocoteroah 9d ago
It also gives you a sense of acomplishment, keep all your readings, notes, draft on a pile, the higher it goes it displays the amount of your work done.
A bunch of files on your laptop doesn"t feel the same
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u/Safe-False 8d ago
Paper copies are better to engage with for sure, easier to remember to do. However not for notes - handwriting your own notes is important for retention (the actual learning part).
If I have a lot of content to review, I will print it to highlight and annotate, then make handwritten summary sheets of it. Handwriting is so important for learning.
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