I could have written HK's post, particularly how her and her spouse differ in learning and remembering. Substitute my DW for your DH, and so on.
I find note-taking during lectures highly effective, but I need never review those notes. It's the act of taking the note that's important.
This is why DW and I had a discussion about DD's writing processes this week, because I made the recommendation that DW stop allowing DD to use "developmental spelling" in any of her writing assignments. DD has demonstrated in a great many ways that her learning processes match my own, and since I know that writing things incorrectly is the most efficient way to permanently etch wrong information in my brain, the longer this is allowed to continue, the more problematic it will be when she's required to stop.
