If there's something that I'm obsessing over or simply cannot get off my mind, I can write it down and it will go away. Throwing the piece of paper is optional.
I think writing puts some kind of structure to your mental model, you process it at the time of writing and can move on to the next thing while preserving the output of the processing. The output tends to be some kind of map about where you can find it and short description about the nature of the thing you write down.
It's almost as if you put the stuff of your "hot memory", the memory that is about the main process you operate on, into your visual memory.
For some reason, typing on a computer doesn't have the same effect. It does have some effect but it's different.
If there's something that I'm obsessing over or simply cannot get off my mind, I can write it down and it will go away. Throwing the piece of paper is optional.
I think writing puts some kind of structure to your mental model, you process it at the time of writing and can move on to the next thing while preserving the output of the processing. The output tends to be some kind of map about where you can find it and short description about the nature of the thing you write down.
It's almost as if you put the stuff of your "hot memory", the memory that is about the main process you operate on, into your visual memory.
For some reason, typing on a computer doesn't have the same effect. It does have some effect but it's different.