Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?

Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? by tyrex2017 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:27AM (#17530687)

another benefit: writing something down burns it more into your brain, so u more likely will remember it without even looking it up

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? by yodon on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:49PM (#17531057)

> writing something down burns it more into your brain

Yes, and the recall effect is much stronger if you use handwriting vs typing[0]

[0] see for example https://redbooth.com/blog/handwriting-and-memory/amp

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? by craftyguy on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:14PM (#17531202)

> Yes, and the recall effect is much stronger if you use handwriting vs typing[0]

That's a good thing, because I'd have to rely on my memory rather than trying to read my handwriting.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? by xemoka on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:23PM (#17531252)

I'm really not a fan of these studies, even this article points out why: copying verbatim doesn't work.

Hand writing forces you to rephrase in your own words because you can't write fast enough to keep up—but there's no reason you can't apply this same method to typing, AND get all the benefits of legible, searchable, organisable, easily expandable text documents.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? by kzrdude on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:30PM (#17531288)

That's a good hypothesis, but it can be tested

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