Re: Laptop Vs Paper
Indeed, it is subjective, but in asking for subjective answers, you get many points of view. Subjective points of view allow the O.P to see the points of both and decide what would most likely suit them before doing either. Usually this decision is the right one.
The point is that other people's points of views are almost completely irrelevant in this case. How you do your study is best figured out by yourself - in one of my classes where we work through a textbook on a language, there is someone who uses an iPad and doodles/types on-top of the pdf in like sticky note things, another person who types on a laptop, someone who writes extra notes in a notepad, and someone (me) who writes *everything* on the blank page opposite the text.
I'm not sure how everyone then revises, but I go home and then re-write the book and my notes in succinct points into a smaller notebook.
Literally 4 different ways of taking notes and revising for 4 people in the class.
And that's just that one class.
I really subscribe to the view that the key to doing well academically is to find a way that works for you. You just need to think about what you need to do for the subject - what you need to remember, what you need to keep (and if so, at what level of accessibility), and what you can discard.