I had this misunderstanding with my 5 year old about taking notes and looking them up.
“Mom, how old was I when I said my first word?”
“I don’t remember, but I wrote it down, so I can look it up.”
“Why?”
“Why did I write it down? Because I knew you might want to know some day.”
A few seconds later. “How old was I?”
“I don’t know. I’ll look it up.”
A pause. A pointed look at my phone. “How old was I when I said my first word?”
“I don’t know! I wrote it down. I’ll look it up for you when we get home.”
Another pause. Another look at the phone. “Is it stuck in the computer?”
Ah! “No, I wrote it down with a pen. On a piece of paper in a notebook. I have to find the notebook. I’ll find it when we get home.”
So what do you mean when you say you “wrote it down?” Five years ago, I meant I wrote it in a notebook with a pen. Today it means I noted it down some where in the cloud. Or perhaps I put just on my computer and it’s “stuck” there.