The first notes were written on stone tablets and would. That takes so much friction to write notes on. And I think in many ways it is lovely that nowadays we can type out things at a hundred words per minute or whatever your typing speed is. But at the same time, there is something to be said with purposely adding friction to your note taking process. It's not like you're going to have a student listening to a lecturer and writing verbatim what the lecture is saying when you have to write it in stone and would.

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