| Does Taking Notes Help You Remember Better? Exploring How Note Taking Relates to Memory (2009) | |||||||||||||||||
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| People are aware of the fact that their memories are fallible and as a result they spend significant amounts of time preparing for subsequent memory challenges, e.g. by taking notes about information they think they will later have to remember. There has been extensive research into note taking and whether it is effective as a memory aid, but most of this has concerned pen and paper rather than digital notes. We conducted an experiment investigating the relationship between note-taking behaviors (whether digital or paper based) and subsequent recall. We gave people two systems: a note-taking device called ChittyChatty (CC) that combines digital notes with an audio record – Fig 1; and conventional Pen & Paper (PP) – Fig 2. We observed the note taking patterns that occurred in digital CC notes and paper based PP notes. We then examined whether the quality and quantity of | |||||||||||||||||
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