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</script><meta name="next-head-count" content="6"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/css/52fc2ba29703df73922c.css" as="style"/><link rel="stylesheet" href="/wiki/_next/static/css/52fc2ba29703df73922c.css" data-n-g=""/><noscript data-n-css=""></noscript><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/main-ae4733327bd95c4ac325.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/webpack-50bee04d1dc61f8adf5b.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/framework.9d524150d48315f49e80.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/commons.0e1c3f9aa780c2dfe9f0.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/pages/_app-8e3d0c58a60ec788aa69.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/940643274e605e7596ecea1f2ff8d83317a3fb76.4841a16762f602a59f00.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/pages/%5B%5B...slug%5D%5D-1aa198f87ede1cd0e1dc.js" as="script"/></head><body><div id="__next"><main><h1>Prefer referencing over remembering</h1><section class="post-metadata"><span>Date: <!-- -->2021-04-06 22:25:17 +08:00</span><span>Date modified: <!-- -->2022-04-01 16:26:08 +08:00</span></section><nav class="toc"><ol class="toc-level toc-level-1"></ol></nav><p>It makes for less cognitive overhead.
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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 <a href="roam:Archiving">roam:Archiving</a> or <a href="/wiki/2020-04-15-14-35-55">Note-taking</a>.
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</p><p>This doesn't mean that you should avert remembering, that would be silly as <a href="/wiki/2021-05-14-11-48-20">Understanding comes first from memory</a>.
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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,
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<a href="/wiki/2021-05-22-11-16-25">Most of the work is done from smaller amount of effort</a>.
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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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</p><p>Here are some examples:
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</p><ul><li><p>Leave links to official documentations and guides instead of writing detailed notes for yourself.
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</p></li><li><p>On a Unix-based environment, for example, has the manual pages with <code class="inline-code">man</code> and you can search through <code class="inline-code">apropos</code>.
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This is especially needed if you're using BSD-based operating systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
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</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/">Texinfo</a> and <a href="https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr">tldr pages</a>.
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</p></li><li><p>Remembering to use the help system of the tools if available.
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For example, <a href="/wiki/editor.emacs.help-system">Using the built-in help system of Emacs</a> or <a href="/wiki/editor.neovim.help-system">Neovim help system</a>.
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</p></li><li><p><a href="/wiki/2020-04-15-20-41-51">Add a desktop search engine for your digital library</a>.
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</p></li><li><p>Referring to official documentation and tools (e.g., <a href="https://devdocs.io/">DevDocs</a>, <a href="https://zealdocs.org/">Zeal</a>).
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</p></li><li><p>Making full use of search tools from programs such as the command palette in <a href="roam:Visual Studio Code">roam:Visual Studio Code</a>, help system in Microsoft Word, and dynamic menus in <a href="roam:Blender">roam:Blender</a>.
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</p></li></ul><section><h2>Backlinks</h2><ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020-04-15-14-35-55">Note-taking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2020-07-01-23-19-07">Information literacy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-02-28-14-52-58">Create examples of ranking complexity when documenting your project</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-05-09-17-30-43">Make a style guide for consistency</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-05-17-08-47-37">We know more compared to what we understood</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-07-21-17-59-19">Examples and stories are more memorable than explanations</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-08-01-07-50-47">Specific use cases are better than step-by-step tutorials</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021-09-16-11-45-21">Problems with simpler tools</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2022-04-19-20-37-20">How I approach note-taking</a></li></ul></section></main></div><script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">{"props":{"pageProps":{"metadata":{"date":"\"2021-04-06 22:25:17 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