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The best part about the cube is that it allows me to use my spatial memory to better remember what windows are open on which workspaces.
by CarVac 8y ago
The best part about the cube is that it allows me to use my spatial memory to better remember what windows are open on which workspaces.
- ehnto 8y agoWhich is a technique some memory athletes use to remember things! They often use spatial cues like mentally placing a piece of information somewhere in a room or town. Maybe the brain prioritizes things placed in the world over ephemeral things.
- infogulch 8y agoI think it's more that the brain has special circuits for remembering things spatially (wether real or invented), and spatial-oriented memory "hacks" are just piggybacking on those dedicated circuits. It's like how GPUs were designed for games but it turns out they can work great for other tasks like machine learning too, if we massage the problem a bit.
- mFixman 8y agoCool people had a transparent desktop so you could see the windows open in the other side of the cube.
- chriswarbo 8y agoHijacking spatial memory like that is really useful. I used to use 6 desktops (in Enlightenment 0.16) in a 3x2 grid, which I could slide between by throwing the mouse to the window edge. The Compiz cube made the transition a bit fancier, but only made sense when the desktops were arranged in a line, and anything other than 4 didn't work as nicely.