I have 500+ posts over ~9 years and the polish is what lets me absorb what I've written into memory. If I look at the titles of all of my posts I can pretty mu

I have 500+ posts over ~9 years and the polish is what lets me absorb what I've written into memory. If I look at the titles of all of my posts I can pretty much recall the details of the post to a reasonable degree, certainly enough to get a complete gist of it and understand the head space I was in at the time. If I stick to internal chicken scratch notes then I have a harder time remembering things later. I guess you could say it's the process of writing a somewhat coherent post that has a beginning, middle and end that's really helpful for retention.