The topic “human memory vs its outsourcing” to handwritten notes, google or TiddlyWiki technology seems to be really interesting.
It seems that excessive reliance on googling has a big disadvantage in the fact, that it typically discorouges (because it is so much easier to search google than to sweat while thinking!) one to contemplate INDIVIDUALLY about the thing he/she is about to search google for, which leads towards consuming of fragmented/scattered pieces of information without constructing of deeper relations to within ONE‘s own mind integrated knowledge and experience. Similarly, if you heavily relate on your notes, you lose the chance to reconstruct/ORGANICALLY recollect once acquired knowledge. It was stated in this thread by several people, that repetition is essential in the course of constructing long term momories. However, I believe that it is important how you repeat: do you think, sweat and to some degree fail in rememberig OR do you just look it up (google, TW notes) in a fragmented way (and after it probably forget soon)? Isn‘t it that the process of taking notes is actually significantly more important than the later reusability of those notes? Writing something actually makes you look for more and preferably deeper relations, which helps you in consolidating your understanding. The lower the quality of your notes, the more searching your notes reminds of googling. The bigger the quality of your notes, the less you need to invoke them (because you probably already have those things in your working memory, since you have put a lot of effort to understand them to produce those high quality notes!). So, my question is: HOW should we use TiddlyWiki for? - a) Write down and store everything which „might be of some use later“? - b) Use it more for daily organization of work/activities or for high quality note-taking putting an emphasis on links between individual units of knowledge? - c) Put more emphasis on employing it for statistics: to gather statistics on how much/how often we have been thinking about various topics / use it to gather organized data about different objects/subjects of some category (a tiddler per person/book/movie/product… [with specially chosen fields for a given category])? - d) Take TW as an important hobby and concentrate on studying TW mark-up language, developing tools/plugins, taking part in the discussions in this forum? [Somehow I guess that for a decent amount of people here taking TW as a hobby could overshadow the applied role of TW.] I believe that all of this and much more is to bigger or smaller degree possible. However, do we really want to relativize everything and escape prioritization? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8564b48b-379a-44ea-8cd4-f677b15a3d67%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
