I have heard several times some fountain pen enthusiasts reference a study that showed that taking notes with a pen and paper encouraged more active engagement, and better retention of material being presented in a class or a conference, than people using a laptop, tablet, etc. (ie, typing).
Does anyone know the exact reference for this study? Most of the time I only hear vague references like “a study found…” or “a study conducted at XYZ University”, and I would like to find the actual study and read it for myself.
@Unattributed Don’t know which study you’re talking about, here is a list of articles I quickly found
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-024-09914-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11251-018-9458-0
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8143381/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8222525/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614524581This is an excellent list of articles. Thank you very much!
It indeed appears the rabbit hole is deep on this topic…
Thanks! I glanced over this article - looks very detailed, and quite interesting.
Quite a few first source references at the end too.
Yes, I noticed that with all the papers here – there is quite the rabbit hole to explore.



