connecting new ideas to what you already know strengthens your memory of new ideas

A key truism in our current understanding of memory encoding is that the process works most effectively when abstract ideas can be linked to nodes of information pertaining to what you already know.¹ This allows for better retrieval of information which is what transforms raw information into knowledge. The Shared Experience is an attempt at digitally making a seamless workflow for this process. We are distilling information into their core idea and then constantly coming back and adding new connections between other nodes in the information network.²

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. See well fleshed out arguments by: Peter Brown, Making It Stick. ↩

2. This integrates spaced repetition into the system as well by integrating naturally occurring revisits to notes as we travel through a chain of thought in the zettlekasten. ↩