Ran a programmatic SEO experiment on Scribble's site.
Impressions: 200 → 8k/day (40x)
Clicks: 5 → 50/day (10x)
Turns out a lot of people search for how to write their name in cursive
Can any Gen Z/Gen Alpha help this elder millennial understand what is going on here?
Is it a vibe thing (like curating your IG grid so it all looks cohesive)?
Or is it an anti-dopamine thing (greyscaling TikTok and Snapchat to make tapping them less appealing)?
Handwriting automaticity.
If letter formation is effortful, it eats the working memory you need for comprehension.
Automatic, effortless handwriting is 'free', so you can focus almost 100% on the lecture.
I know the papers debunking this stuff, but what do you call it, then, when some people can take notes during a lecture fairly easily - I.e. without strain - while listening and others can't?