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<p>No, it doesn’t. I can touch-type far faster than I can handwrite. As a recovering journalist, years of furious full interview note-scribbling has reduced my handwriting to a barely-legible scrawl anyway. It is 100 times easier for me to take notes on a laptop.</p>
<p>I use a 15" unibody MacBook Pro (I have no problem toting it around campus) and an app called Circus Ponies NoteBook, though when I go back to grad school this fall, I’m going to look at Evernote.</p>