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The way I’ve come around to digital tools is that I consider them a different, externalised type of memory augmentation. They give us another type of memory.
by Fr0styMatt88 3y ago
The way I’ve come around to digital tools is that I consider them a different, externalised type of memory augmentation. They give us another type of memory.
If someone interrupts me and asks me to do something that I can’t attend to right then, there’s two options (assuming I want to do the thing):
- Hold it in my working memory until I’m able to fully context switch or put mental effort into transferring it into long-term memory
- Immediately note it down, then make no further effort to remember it
The same applies for random ideas that might pop into my head that are unrelated to the task at hand.
- nine_k 3y agoNoting it down so that the context is easy enough to restore may be a surprisingly large amount of work, easily taking 10 or even 15 minutes, not 20 seconds. This is somehow related to the fact that e.g. a programmer can spend 30-60 minutes wandering through code and docs before the right amount of context is built in their head, so that a seemingly simple change can be done with confidence.
- Fr0styMatt88 3y agoOh yeah absolutely. I mainly do notes in my personal life, coding is a whole different thing that I’m still in the process of figuring out lol
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