Or not everyone is the same (even ignoring the.. interesting stud design of the paper that excluded touch typists).
When I would learn vocabulary in school for a secondary language, the teacher would always state how this is best done by writing everything by hand. I never ever saw observed that benefit and always felt that to be true for me.
So I might be delusional, or there is something else at play here.
Sometimes you just want to record the information quickly in a searchable way and forget about it until the next time you need it.
Not being able to recall something you do not want to might be a feature, and so is increasing the machine ability to recall it (as opposed to yours). Grepping text is always going to be more efficient than scanned handwritten paper notes.
When I would learn vocabulary in school for a secondary language, the teacher would always state how this is best done by writing everything by hand. I never ever saw observed that benefit and always felt that to be true for me.
So I might be delusional, or there is something else at play here.