Taking notes and Cognitive Load Theory

Why do we take notes, or (e)Notes? (from Re-imagining a medical and postgraduate training curriculum "PhD" proposal blogpost)

Taking notes allows us to make tangible a visual representation of a thought/series of thoughts in our current "working memory". This has limited capacity unlike our long term memory.

Making a note or (e)Note reduces the cognitive load on our working memory, and allows the limited processing capacity of our working memory to focus on integrating new information with our prior knowledge.

This is a key feature of learning. Our learning process. How we learn.
(Cognitive load theory: Implications for medical education: AMEE guide No.86; highlighted at (TeL symposium @ AMEE 2014).