Thanks for your question Birthe! My answer is actually: yes! And I am, at 41, back at university!
The rest of this post has nothing to do with TW but like your post gives some background to my answer.. albeit probably too long. Anyone else can skip reading. You have been warned ;-) Having been a city boy all my life and studied+worked mostly in analytical/theoretical environments I two years ago moved out to the country side and realized I am almost handicapped when it comes to e.g changing chains on a motorsaw and other *real* stuff. So I decided to re-school to become an elementary school technology teacher! (Another reason for this particular job, other than that it'll be fun, is that my economic background made me realize very early on that the economy will continue to deteriorate for many years, if not decades, but that this will be a very safe career.) So, I'm back at university - coincidentally the same one as decades ago (the Royal Institute of Tech.in Stockholm). Already then there were quite a number of lectures that definitely demanded your *full* attention. Not every lecture, not every teacher, but for sure quite a few. That is at least my experience and I'm not a slow note taker, and I can touch type. In fact, I often don't take notes in order to follow the lecture instead. Of course it is also a matter of how well you focus on multiple tasks, but something like clicking a button *forces* you to look at the screen in order to locate it etc and I think few people can process auditory information as well then. Another aspect is that paper+pen simply has a better interface than a computer for most notetaking. A laptop is bulky, you hear keys pressed, there are annying popups (battery 10%, forced updates...) so keeping distraction at a minimum and workflow at maximum is important in my view. Normal TW workflow is just not satisfying here and I've tried several times. As for "drawings, formulas and curves" - yes, definite problem. While I hope TW will handle this well one day, I know of no software that can compete with paper+pen when it comes to drawing simple curves and adding a little comment or so. But it is mostly a hardware issue I think. BTW, how very positive to see an older woman (your words) here! Do you have a programming/computer background? <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
