The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains

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    2 days ago

    It does. I vastly prefer writing notes by hand than typing em. But my handwriting sucks when I have to write quickly, and I also don’t like lugging around giant stacks of paper. And so I settled on a digital writing pad, and just do the work to type my notes later. Acts as revision too.

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        4 hours ago

        Back in university, it was an iPad mini 5, using Notability. Notability has enshittified badly though.

        These days (I’m no longer in university so I do write a lot less), I write on a Kobo.