09.28.07
And, speaking of reminders, GTD, etc.
GTD urges us to make lists to get stuff off our mind. And in an earlier post, I discussed the idea of using writing (repetitively) to communicate with your unconscious mind. Now Lifehack.org explores why writing something down helps us remember it. As he says:
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on note-taking skills. One common experience many people have, and that several people mentioned in response to that post, is that when they take good notes they remember things well enough that they rarely end up having to look at their notes again.
In fact, it seems that writing anything down makes us remember it better. On the other hand, not writing things down is just asking to forget. It’s a kind of mental Catch-22: the only way not to have to write things down is to write them down so you remember them well enough not to have written them down.
Oy.
Curious about this, I decided to do some research into the psychology of writing and memory.
