There's little research into the benefits of digital note-taking over handwritten notes.But the findings underline that typing out notes improves later recall, while copy and pasting text into notes is actually detrimental to learning because it encourages wordiness.

Digital vs. handwritten note-taking

The 
most rigorously structured notes, those with hierarchal ordering and numbered 
subsections, are of the highest quality and accuracy. But although these notes are significantly more precise than freestyle note-taking, there is little difference in the ability of the note-taker to recall the material.

Structure and hierarchy

We remember things that stand out.Underlining
 something makes it stand out against other words and that makes 
recalling that word easier.

The Von Restorff effect in notes taking

It brings visual structure to notes, usually involving writing one word in 
the center and drawing offshoots from it with related ideas and phrases.Mind-mapping is significantly more effective than just writing out notes and helps with presenting the information back with more clarity and coherence than traditional notes.

Mind-mapping

If you have a bunch of pads or notebooks filled with meeting notes that you never consult, your note-taking isn't providing the most value over time.Re-reading notes does make a difference. Because the chief value of note-taking is storing information so it could be consulted later.

Don't just take notes. Read them

2. Paper Is Becoming Obsolete ... Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Alexandra Samuel said that if she turns up to a meeting and sees a paper notebook tucked under her colleague's arm, she's not impressed. Seriously not impressed. Samuel is a digital note-taking extremist.