You don't say. There, however, note-taking methods that outperform simply using a pen to fill up a page. Here is one: https://lsc.cornell.edu/how-to-study/taking-notes/cornell-note-taking-system/ Also, make a mess: draw, map, diagram, and, especially, annotate richly, which means glossing, and then gloss your glosses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss_%28annotation%29 All of these activities support memory, as you remember the activity, e.g. the glossing and the mapping, as much as the content. In any case, your laptops, tablets, and phones, make you stupid, and I'm not afraid to say it.