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> My opinion: commit only the most important ideas to long-term memory. The rest can be looked up. Mine's similar: By default, take notes and figure out a way
by read_if_gay_ 5y ago
> My opinion: commit only the most important ideas to long-term memory. The rest can be looked up.
Mine's similar: By default, take notes and figure out a way to search them quickly whenever needed. Only memorize those things where lookup adds too much latency/is impractical.
For note taking I've found Vimwiki to work well, and fzf.vim for searching. However effectively taking notes is something to be learned, and it's definitely not just "summarize everything you've learned".
- kd5bjo 5y ago> Only memorize those things where lookup adds too much latency/is impractical. One particularly useful form of this is keywords and jargon: If you memorize the formal names of nebulous concepts, you’ll be in a much better position to look up the details when you need them. For example: “Encoding scheme derived from a tree of symbol frequencies” => “Huffman Coding” An internet or literature search for the latter term will turn up relevant results much more quickly than searching for the former directly.