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With the few updates on more learning, writing, and some forward calls for archiving which I'll be jotting down for some ideas soon.
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Prefer referencing over remembering
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 Note-taking.
This doesn't mean that you should avert remembering, that would be silly as 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, 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.
Examples:
- On a Unix-based environment, for example, has the manual pages with
manand you can search throughapropos. This is especially needed if you're using BSD-based operating systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. - Texinfo and tldr pages.
- GNU Emacs has a great built-in help system. (See Using the built-in help system of Emacs for more details.)
- Add a desktop search engine for your digital library.
- Referring to official documentation and tools (e.g., DevDocs, 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.
If the system has a way of referencing something (other than the internet), use it to your advantage as you may find something valuable.