Writing By Hand Better for Memory & Learning; Brain Activity: Scientific American 🖊

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30. The only problem I ever had with my handwritten notes...

...was trying to remember what an abbreviation, that seemed clever and logical at the moment I first thought it up, actually meant when reading my notes. Many times, I'd look at one of my spur-of-the-moment creations and wonder, "
what the hell does this mean?"

In the various subjects that were part of the nursing school curriculum, there were lots of lengthy technical terms that took too long to write down in their entirety, hence the temptation to abbreviate.