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atoavyesterday at 9:02 PM1 replyview on HN

Actually I think one of the main values of note taking isn't that you get notes, it is that engaging your brain to summarize points makes you understand and remember the points better, even if you throw your notes away right after.

It is like writing: One of the main purposes of writing (for me and many others) is that it forces you to structure your thoughts. You could give that task to AI, get the resulting text, but your loss is the lack of clarity you could have gained from doing it yourself.


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jerlamyesterday at 10:06 PM

This is definitely a thing that's been studied in schools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268974 (2019, 238 comments)

However, note taking in a business sense is usually different than note taking in an academic sense. Business meetings are more often used to make decisions, unlike academics where lectures are intended to disseminate information.