The handwritten text has been a staple in the writing business for a long time. However, with the advent of the digital age, we saw that students are now the vast majority that use handwritten text, while everywhere else people have moved on to digital writing/typing.
However, higher education institutes such as colleges and universities allow students to bring their laptops and other digital devices to their classes. This has enabled many students to take notes by typing.
However, there are many benefits of taking notes by hand, but similarly, there are many benefits of taking notes by typing. In this article, we will discuss the benefits of using a hybrid approach combining the best of both worlds. That is using a text-to-handwriting converter. Keep reading to find out more.
Advantages of Text-to-Handwriting Converter for Note-Taking
Text-to-handwriting converters are useful for those people who want to work and take notes in a digital way, but they also want the visual appeal and grace of handwritten text. Such people can use these tools to change their digital text to handwriting.
Handwriting converters can simulate multiple handwriting styles and transpose them on a regular-looking sheet of paper. The output can be downloaded as a PNG and printed for creating a physical copy of handwritten notes.
Here is an image showing you the output of such a tool.
As you saw, the given text has been converted into neat handwritten text. All you need to do is to enter your text into the input box, and the image will update in real time with handwritten text.
Now, let us see what the advantages are of using such tools for notetaking.
1. Speed of Taking Notes
First of all, the speed of typing is faster than writing. According to an article published in the Daily Princetonian, an average American can write only 13 words per minute, while they can type 40 words per minute. The difference is staggering and alludes to the efficiency of taking notes digitally.
This is even better for people who take online classes as they do not have to spend any money on buying physical notebooks as they can take notes online. The advantage of being able to take notes by typing is that you can easily keep up with a lecture and type everything verbatim.
Students do not even need to type their notes in a different word processor, they can directly type into the tool and make their handwritten notes in real-time.
If the same notes were being taken by hand, a lot of information would have to be cut, paraphrased, and shortened to keep up with the lecture. So, speed and efficiency are vastly improved by taking notes online and converting them to handwriting later.
2. Legible Handwriting
One great advantage of using handwriting converters is that their handwriting is really legible. It is uniform and does not have uneven spaces. It also fits neatly between the lines of the page.
This is really great for people who have writing disorders and cannot write legibly. Such people can simply take notes online by typing and convert them to handwriting later.
This is a great accessibility option that lets people with dysgraphia and other learning disorders like dyslexia interact with handwriting and create handwritten notes.
The disorders that we mentioned above basically result in an inability to write legibly. However, typing does not pose such problems. So, such people can type notes digitally and convert them to handwriting using text-to-handwriting converters.
3. Editable Notes
One of the biggest advantages of text-to-handwriting converters is that you can edit your handwritten notes. Normally it is impossible to edit handwritten notes. You have to either put ugly-looking scratches to cross out stuff or create new notes altogether.
This is incredibly time-consuming and results in a lot of wasted effort. This is where text-to-handwriting tools come in handy.
Since they are digital in nature, their output can be changed at a moment’s notice without any issues.
Digital deletion of text does not leave behind any visual traces of the deletion unlike in handwriting where crosses and blots are clearly visible. So, that is one of the best advantages of using a text-to-handwriting converter to create notes instead of actually writing notes by hand.
Conclusion
And this concludes our article on the benefits of using text-to-handwriting tools. We discussed a plausible reason people would want to use a handwriting converter. Then we discussed three possible advantages of using such tools. The advantages highlight why handwriting converters are better for taking notes than manually writing the notes.