My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, wrote a provocative post on the HBR blog titled, "Dear Colleague, Put Down Your Notebook" where she makes an argument for switching to digital note taking tools like Evernote is more efficient than taking notes on paper. (She recently authored an excellent  e-book on how to use Evernote). I agree with Alexandra's point about efficiency, but I don't always think that digital note taking is always effective for certain situations.    I tend to use both.       For … [Read more...]