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#+title : Prefer referencing over remembering
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#+date : "2021-04-06 22:25:17 +08:00"
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#+date_modified : "2021-07-14 15:36:24 +08:00"
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#+language : en
#+tags : personal-info-management
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It makes for less cognitive overhead.
This is especially true in the age of internet where information is widely distributed.
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Even without the internet, however, it is still useful to find ways to refer to things or store them locally whether by archiving or creating related notes.
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This doesn't mean that you should avert remembering, that would be silly as [[id:c0e4fb0e-68f2-4db4-8c3e-f5a7845738c3 ][Understanding comes first from memory ]].
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You're still trying to understand a concept, after all.
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The gist of it is knowing the basics of a concept and its relations to others,
[[id:df20e58b-6d38-4ace-8468-413bc708c772 ][Most of the work is done from smaller amount of effort ]].
This enables you to come up with a more effective search query.
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If nothing else, you could take advantage of the help system insisted by the tool.
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Examples:
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- On a Unix-based environment, for example, has the manual pages with ~man~ and you can search through ~apropos~ .
This is especially needed if you're using BSD-based operating systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
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- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ ][Texinfo ]] and [[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr ][tldr pages ]].
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- [[id:ce6ab58e-b295-4fdb-8af7-fc89c63ec208 ][GNU Emacs ]] has a great built-in help system.
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(See [[id:0efb9c51-3a12-4e5a-9e9b-d48cf4bd53ce ][Using the built-in help system of Emacs ]] for more details.)
If the system has a way of referencing something (other than the internet), use it to your advantage as you may find something valuable.