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Making a font of my handwriting

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334 points kickofline | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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apparent ◴[05 Sep 25 20:24 UTC] No.45143208[source]▶
They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it?

I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like this that you could digitize into might be better than writing by hand (whic probably provides some of the memory boost) and then digitizing into a traditional font.

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1. dotancohen ◴[05 Sep 25 21:10 UTC] No.45143670[source]▶

  > One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it?
In my experience, you do. I use a Boox E-ink tablet to write on, and I completely concur that just using the stylus to write things commits them to my memory. The things that I've typed, I have to go back and look at.