From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Note-taking improves learning

Note-taking improves learning

- AI is so hot right now and the ability for automated transcription to occur, what are your thoughts on that? Does that make it less important to be able to type quickly? - No, I mean, I think that at the end of the day, typing is a way of processing information. So it depends on what you're trying to use it for. Like as an example, if you're going to transcribe a podcast and you're putting it out there because you want the content out there, then I think there's absolutely no harm in doing some sort of automated transcription. You're not actually trying to learn the material or do something with it, you're just trying to make it available. But for me, the main reason that I like to do note taking or that I practice it religiously is because it does help me learn. And so if you're taking advantage of a tool to do that work for you, you actually lose out on the benefit of processing the information. When I think about typing and taking notes, the reason that it helps improve your…

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