A lot of what you highlight here (which I agree with!) is caused, in no small part, by the fact that the modern, computerized way of "taken notes" breaks the traditional value of "taking notes". Back in the bad old days, "taken notes" was well-understood to not be copying what you read or hear verbatim on a piece of paper, but to ingest it, digest it, and then reprocess it into something shorter and more more useful that you could quickly put down into paper. The process of "taking notes" in and of itself reinforced the learning. If you were taking notes like this, you frequently didn't even need to review them, just taking the notes was sufficient to understand and remember the material.

Now, people aren't "taking notes", they are copy/pasting into an app, or bookmarking a link, or whatever. The learning process triggered by the note taking work is gone. Just as I don't remember what text I cut/pasted from one paragraph of this response to another paragraph 60 seconds after I hit the "Respond" button, I won't remember the text that I copied from a document into my note taking app 60 seconds later. I will need to re-read that note (if I even remember it's there!) to get that knowledge back.

It's not to say that the modern, computerized way of taking notes is wrong, or bad... but it's an entirely different tool and an entirely different way to understand information, but people haven't caught on to that fact yet.

J.Ja