This may sound a bit whacky, but not having learnt to type when I was young I’m a really slow typist; note taking and diagramming is easier on paper. A solution I used for a while was those cheap A5 reporter notepads, the ones with the tear-out pages. Anything I needed to keep, just tear the page out and scan it.
My handwriting has, I regret, got worse over the years; to the point where it’s more a reminder of intent than a means of communication. Fortunately retirement means that the worst that will happen is forgetting what’s on the shopping list and being unable to decipher it.
For the odd bit of note taking I still have to do, mostly secretarial work for a couple of charities, I’ve a ReMarkable tablet, which cuts out the scanning bit. I do sometimes feel that I’ve reverted to 5-year old me sitting at my school desk, face scrunched with concentration trying to write proper letters. The trick, I’ve found, is to point the web cam at some random angle; people are generally too polite to point out that the old fogie isn’t on screen. Little do they know…