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Re:Lab Notebooks (2020) by ac50hz on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:50PM (#38776951)
Record keeping, for better or worse, is essential.

Memories fade. Ink fades but rarely corrupts.

Re:Lab Notebooks (2020) by Aerbil313 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @06:46PM (#38777339)
I grew up with the stories of real people (students and scholars of the past times) being able to memorize things by just hearing or reading them once.

Seems a forgotten thing in the modern world.

Re:Lab Notebooks (2020) by melagonster on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @07:19PM (#38777576)
there are a lot of book teach you writing note later and give client deep impression.
Re:Lab Notebooks (2020) by malfist on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:18AM (#38782791)
Because it's a myth. Photographic memory isn't real. Check out the wikipage on eidetic memory. People that claimed it in the past were not telling the full truth. There are only a few examples of savants being able to recall specific things after one showing, but it's terribly narrow. Like being able to draw a horse you saw, but not human faces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory