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How to make memory systems widespread?

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"If memory systems are so great, why don't far more people use them?" As someone who helped develop a memory system1, and who has written extensively about such systems, I hear this question a lot. It's a great question. I believe memory systems are shockingly powerful: when used well, they make memory a choice, and substantially enlarge the type of creative work a person can do. But this power is obfuscated by several obstacles. If those obstacles can be overcome, then memory systems ought eventually be used seriously and routinely by hundreds of millions or billions of people2, for whom the benefit will greatly exceed the effort required. In these rough notes, I sketch out a few things I think ought to happen in order for memory systems to be far more widely used. By "memory system" I am referring to the penumbra of systems and media forms that are sometimes called spaced-repetition memory systems. Anki, SuperMemo, Orbit, the mnemonic medium, incremental reading, incremental writing,

How to make memory systems widespread? tft memory The music isn't in the piano. – Alan Kay "If memory systems are so great, why don't far more people use them?" As someone who helped develop a memory system 1 , and who has written extensively about such systems, I hear this question a lot. It's a great question. I believe memory systems are shockingly powerful: when used well, they make memory a choice, and substantially enlarge the type of creative work a person can do. But this power is obfuscated by several obstacles. If those obstacles can be overcome, then memory systems ought eventually

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