Are you back in school? When I am our benevolent dictator, I'm going to bring back oral examinations and handwriting. In law school I handwrote all my notes and all my exams and while I might not have gotten everything down I do think handwriting is a fundamentally different thing in the brain than typing. Too many students become stenographers and try to learn it all later. I think Im smart, but I also think it gave me an edge. We've forgotten that all of our abstract thought and brilliants comes from the repurposing of monkey brain wetware designed to operate in 3d space so actually drawing the thoughts into existence creates a landscape for retaining those thoughts in memory.