relying primarily on a tagging system to organize notes necessarily requires you to make multiple decisions about each and every note that enters the system.
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One of the most important discoveries in cognitive science in recent years is that cognition is embodied and situated.This means that our primary mode of thinking is not manipulating abstract symbols (like a computer does), but rather using our body (thus embodiment) to directly interact with the environment (which is situated). In this way, we “offload” some of our cognitive processing onto our environment, which is after all capable of storing information much better than our brains are.
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memorizing a phone number without constant review is a challenge, yet you can probably identify the locations of hundreds of objects in your house.This concept is called stigmexrgy (or stigmergic cognition) and represents one of our brains’ greatest innovations in saving energy.
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We’ve reached the point where search is so good, effectively the whole document is made up of tags, and the cognitive load of meticulously tagging every note becomes truly unforgivable.
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- [note::There's one important caveat to this: what if the document/annotation refers to concepts not actually mentioned in the artifact's content?]

When I look at successful people, I notice again and again that it is this — the ability to systematically capture and review and deploy their ideas, further strengthening their creative self-esteem, leading them to value and generate more ideas, and so on in a virtuous loop — that really sets them apart.
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relying primarily on a tagging system to organize notes necessarily requires you to make multiple decisions about each and every note that enters the system.
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One of the most important discoveries in cognitive science in recent years is that cognition is embodied and situated.This means that our primary mode of thinking is not manipulating abstract symbols (like a computer does), but rather using our body (thus embodiment) to directly interact with the environment (which is situated). In this way, we “offload” some of our cognitive processing onto our environment, which is after all capable of storing information much better than our brains are.
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memorizing a phone number without constant review is a challenge, yet you can probably identify the locations of hundreds of objects in your house.This concept is called stigmexrgy (or stigmergic cognition) and represents one of our brains’ greatest innovations in saving energy.
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We’ve reached the point where search is so good, effectively the whole document is made up of tags, and the cognitive load of meticulously tagging every note becomes truly unforgivable.
- No location available
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- [note::There's one important caveat to this: what if the document/annotation refers to concepts not actually mentioned in the artifact's content?]

When I look at successful people, I notice again and again that it is this — the ability to systematically capture and review and deploy their ideas, further strengthening their creative self-esteem, leading them to value and generate more ideas, and so on in a virtuous loop — that really sets them apart.
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