Comment by JohnFen

Comment by JohnFen 5 days ago

I don't accumulate tabs (I rarely have more than two open at a time), so I don't have to do anything to allow them to be closed. I just close the browser.

With your larger question, though, if there's specific information that I feel the need to keep locally, I add that to a wiki that I run. If information is in a non-online form (books, etc.), all I need to do is remember that it's in there. I don't need to remember the information itself because I can look it up at will. For everything else, I don't worry about it at all. If I found it online once, I can find it online again should I need it again.

dennisy 5 days ago

Ohh, I really wish I also had this attitude (YAGNI)!

But do you not believe there is some value in trying to store some of what you found / learnt each day, to allow you to make some new connections in the brain the following days?

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JohnFen 5 days ago

> do you not believe there is some value in trying to store some of what you found / learnt each day,
Sure, but I retain some of that without having to do anything special. I have no need to remember everything. My brain seems to know better than I do what is worth remembering and what isn't anyway. I trust it.
Retention is even more likely to happen if it's information that I actually used that day, and if it's really valuable information, then I probably have used it immediately.

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