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Time was, that handwriting notes was far more socially acceptable than typing them --- a number of my professors in college wouldn't allow laptops, but none of them complained of my using an NCR-3125 (running PenPoint) or Newton MessagePad for note-taking.
Also, a lot of notes are difficult to capture using just a keyboard:
- art history --- I'd always make a quick sketch of a given work of art
- mathematics --- while I know (La)TeX fairly well, it's quite a bit faster to just write out an equation than to try typing the code for it
- diagrams /flow charts --- an outline doesn't have the necessary flexibility
Handwriting recognition works fine, so long as the words are in the dictionary --- I just wrote out résumé w/ little difficulty on my Tablet PC --- even if it gets it wrong, it's fairly simple to click on a given recognized word and select the proper text from a list.
Chinese (characters) are of course even easier, since the number of strokes, their order and direction are rigorously defined.
William
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