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Building a better memory system

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I've done a lot of work on memory systems – as a user, as a researcher, and as someone helping develop new systems. I've found them tremendously helpful. But I also believe they could be made far better. In the following notes I riff on a few dozen1 ideas for how they could improved. I expect most of the ideas work poorly, or need substantial iteration, or would only work in concert with other ideas. But perhaps a few of the ideas would, with some work, make memory systems much better. Feel free to riff on these ideas, and build them into your systems. A note on provenance: Many of these ideas are pretty obvious to anyone who has seriously used memory systems and read into the literature on human memory. I'm certainly not trying to claim any sort of priority. A few of the ideas are perhaps new and insightful; if that is the case, then credit certainly belongs in part to Andy Matuschak, with whom I've spent hundreds of hours talking about memory systems. Assumed audience: These notes ar

Building a better memory system tft By: Michael Nielsen, November 23, 2022 I've done a lot of work on memory systems – as a user, as a researcher, and as someone helping develop new systems. I've found them tremendously helpful. But I also believe they could be made far better. In the following notes I riff on a few dozen 1 ideas for how they could improved. I expect most of the ideas work poorly, or need substantial iteration, or would only work in concert with other ideas. But perhaps a few of the ideas would, with some work, make memory systems much better. Feel free to riff on these ideas,

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