Spaced repetition
I find it very frustrating that <i>spaced repetition</i> is the best recourse we (humans) have to remember information. I am regularly concerned with the number of thoughts and interesting ideas I have each day, and don&#x27;t manage to write down or otherwise preserve. I have begun recording some minor annotations and idle thoughts on paper a month ago and after reviewing them today, I am shocked at how many I simply do not recall writing down at all. Worse, some of the information has lost context: I wrote it in a certain state of mind, certain emotional state which I no longer have and so the preserved words on paper are missing meaning and appear alien. The situation is so poor that it seems 20% of the material I have recorded has not even been properly preserved from only a month ago.<p>I find memory endlessly frustrating; we have so many unique thoughts and insights and we are forced to watch them circle the drain. Worse yet, most people aren&#x27;t even aware this is happening, no internal inventory has been taken to show the poor state of affairs!<p>The tech community has a fixation on life extension, but I am worried I am not even properly remembering the life I am living right now, nevermind tomorrow.