- Many people have anxiety that they may forget the details if fragmentary note is separated from context. Such people try to take long note.
- Exploratory Studies of Knowledge p.117 Point Memo and Reminder dot-notes and recollection union will form [memory
p.118
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The point memos are cut into pieces and spatially rearranged into a semantically comprehensible diagram, not just a single column in chronological order. In other words, structuring them. This process, to my surprise, brought back vivid memories even after a week, or even a year or more. Moreover, even the unwritten related details are fleshed out to some extent.
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Lines are stronger than points, surfaces are stronger than lines
In other words, Jiro Kawakita’s subjective memory recall was improved when he Jiro Kawakita took notes spatially reconstructed in pieces, rather than taking notes one-dimensional text in chronological order, due to anxiety about forgetting details. Jiro Kawakita] subjectively Memory recall was improved. This is probably Craik&Tulving 1975’s effect that the more cognitively sophisticated you are, the more your memory will stick. The act of trying to write down as much incoming information as possible on the spot is not cognitively sophisticated. The process of taking it apart and structuring it is cognitively sophisticated because you are thinking about meaning.
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