This essay aims to understand high school students' lived experiences of notetaking in school, specifically comparing handwriting with keyboard writing, by using existential phenomenology. Knowing how and what kind of notetaking best suits the students' education can be useful to adapt teaching for their betterment. The conclusions were that the students where split quite equally between hand writers and keyboard writers, however the hand writers seem more absolute in their preference. Hand writers are driven primarily by the want to remember, followed by enjoyment and creativity whereas the keyboard writers where mostly driven by writing quickly. The hand writers note take a bit more frequently than the keyboard writers which might be caused by the fact that they seem to have more incentives for taking notes. Possible obstacles for writing notes and doing it well seems to be that a lot of students are not being taught how to do notetaking and additionally the school where the study was conducted does not provide the students with pens but laptops, meaning that students are not presented with the choice of writing with the medium they find best serve them.