Processes not tools

Posted by Amontillado
Sep 25, 2018 at 10:03 PM

I wonder if this is related to the doorway effect, which has a profound effect on my focus - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

The Brain seemed to trigger doorway effect responses. When I clicked on a thought and it became the center of attention, I had a good sense of what I was thinking when I originally added it.

Chris Thompson wrote:
That’s pretty fascinating—you’ve encouraged me to read Whittaker and
>Bergman’s book. I’m curious if they looked at any spatial alternatives
>(like hierarchical folders in a mind map configuration), given that
>locational cues seem to be important?
> >—Chris
> >Pixelpunker wrote:
>>
>>Whittaker and Bergman tell me that, surprisingly in light of all the
>>advanced approaches, the traditional folder or outliner hierarchy is
>>best and they have some empirical data to back that up. The explanation
>>for this is that a fixed folder hierarchy leads to retrieval by
>>locational cues and does not tax the verbal system. It’s sort of like
>>why the method of loci works as a mnemonic aid. They also determined
>the
>>optimal number of items per folder and hierarchy depth that would
>>optimize the search time by using linear regression…
>