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#+title: Prefer referencing over remembering
#+date: "2021-04-06 22:25:17 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2022-04-01 16:26:08 +08:00"
#+language: en
#+tags: personal-info-management


It makes for less cognitive overhead.
This is especially true in the age of internet where information is widely distributed.
Even without the internet, however, it is still useful to find ways to refer to things or store them locally whether by roam:Archiving or [[id:0d2264a6-e487-4761-818a-d17d2833120f][Note-taking]].

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]].
You're still trying to understand a concept, after all.
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.
If nothing else, you could take advantage of the help system insisted by the tool.

Here are some examples:

- Leave links to official documentations and guides instead of writing detailed notes for yourself.

- 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.

- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] and [[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr][tldr pages]].

- Remembering to use the help system of the tools if available.
  For example, [[id:0efb9c51-3a12-4e5a-9e9b-d48cf4bd53ce][Using the built-in help system of Emacs]] or [[id:0a0fe63e-dcf3-4928-9e82-5513784c1244][Neovim help system]].

- [[id:ea263f6f-fa8e-4e6d-a585-d30d493d1e3c][Add a desktop search engine for your digital library]].

- Referring to official documentation and tools (e.g., [[https://devdocs.io/][DevDocs]], [[https://zealdocs.org/][Zeal]]).

- Making full use of search tools from programs such as the command palette in [[roam:Visual Studio Code]], help system in Microsoft Word, and dynamic menus in roam:Blender.
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Make a note on creating hub notes 2021-05-07 15:30:09 +00:00			`#+title: Prefer referencing over remembering`
Update wiki as of 2021-04-07 2021-04-07 09:36:32 +00:00			`#+date: "2021-04-06 22:25:17 +08:00"`
Improve evergreen notes Put some time thinking about these for a short time. Finally rewrote them with a more linear flow. 2022-04-03 08:57:16 +00:00			`#+date_modified: "2022-04-01 16:26:08 +08:00"`
Update wiki as of 2021-04-07 2021-04-07 09:36:32 +00:00			`#+language: en`
			`#+tags: personal-info-management`


Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00			`It makes for less cognitive overhead.`
			`This is especially true in the age of internet where information is widely distributed.`
Update notebook as of 2021-08-07 With the few updates on more learning, writing, and some forward calls for archiving which I'll be jotting down for some ideas soon. 2021-08-07 04:00:20 +00:00			`Even without the internet, however, it is still useful to find ways to refer to things or store them locally whether by roam:Archiving or [[id:0d2264a6-e487-4761-818a-d17d2833120f][Note-taking]].`
Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00
Update learning-related evergreen notes 2021-06-21 02:53:32 +00:00			`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]].`
Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00			`You're still trying to understand a concept, after all.`
Add notes on skill-building and note-taking Some more notes on them, though it's becoming more broad with the perspectives this time. There is a backlog of them more, I just need to process them this morning (or evening). This will eventually diverge into more concrete skills now. 2021-07-14 23:23:35 +00:00			`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.`
Update wiki as of 2021-04-07 2021-04-07 09:36:32 +00:00			`If nothing else, you could take advantage of the help system insisted by the tool.`

Update learning-related notes 2022-01-09 04:22:52 +00:00			`Here are some examples:`

			`- Leave links to official documentations and guides instead of writing detailed notes for yourself.`
Update wiki as of 2021-04-07 2021-04-07 09:36:32 +00:00
Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00			`- 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.`
Update wiki as of 2021-04-07 2021-04-07 09:36:32 +00:00
Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00			`- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/][Texinfo]] and [[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr][tldr pages]].`

Improve evergreen notes Put some time thinking about these for a short time. Finally rewrote them with a more linear flow. 2022-04-03 08:57:16 +00:00			`- Remembering to use the help system of the tools if available.`
			`For example, [[id:0efb9c51-3a12-4e5a-9e9b-d48cf4bd53ce][Using the built-in help system of Emacs]] or [[id:0a0fe63e-dcf3-4928-9e82-5513784c1244][Neovim help system]].`
Update personal info management notes 2021-05-09 14:49:23 +00:00
Update the notebook The topics I've covered so far for Linux, package managers, archiving, and learning. I also updated some formatting for other notes especially with the command line references. 2021-07-29 15:26:51 +00:00			`- [[id:ea263f6f-fa8e-4e6d-a585-d30d493d1e3c][Add a desktop search engine for your digital library]].`

			`- Referring to official documentation and tools (e.g., [[https://devdocs.io/][DevDocs]], [[https://zealdocs.org/][Zeal]]).`

			`- Making full use of search tools from programs such as the command palette in [[roam:Visual Studio Code]], help system in Microsoft Word, and dynamic menus in roam:Blender.`