Experiment 07 — Retrieval

Write it once. The notebook remembers the rest.

Locus is a second brain you can write in. Capture on the right-hand page. Related slips appear in the margin as soon as the words overlap.

1. 07.12Working memory is a deskClearing the desk into boxes labeled later is how thoughts lose their neighbors.
2. 07.13Retrieval beats storageA warehouse of notes is useless if you cannot walk to the right shelf in under a minute.
3. 08.02The kettle windowMost ideas arrive while water boils. Capture has to be faster than steam.
4. 08.09Links as lab tapeA strip of tape between two pages is more honest than a folder hierarchy.
5. 08.11Sleep as incubationConnections set overnight. The notebook is still working after you close it.

do not re-copy into another app —