Taking notes by hand is more effective than by laptop (?)

This is a 12-year-old study that has failed replication three times. And the underlying claim is still probably right.

The paper is Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014. 67 students at Princeton. Longhand note-takers scored higher on conceptual questions. Became the most cited paper in… https://t.co/VXTNfQAuvt

— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) March 18, 2026