When you want to remember stuff from when you were a child, your brain “knows” where to reference this in your head. Each note can be assigned one or more tags a tag is like a list or a group. Here is how this idea of firing and wiring together fits into using Evernote. The more he or she does this, the stronger and more defined those muscle movements are. If a baby wants to pick up a cup, its brain has to get the right sequence of muscle movements to succeed. When it comes to these models learning things there is a saying, “That which fires together, wires together”.

It is what it sounds like mathematical models to mimic how the connections in living brains work. I’m not a brain doctor, but I did study artificial neural networks in graduate school. The “which bills have been paid” note is more involved than the one with a code snippet to make radio buttons horizontal. Since Evernote is digital, you CAN have notes that are more complex than others. The sticky note for playing a drum solo would have much more information than the sticky note to write your name.īefore you think this is going nowhere, remember this post is to show you how to implement Evernote as a cloud-based expansion to your brain’s memory storage. Obviously, certain things are more complex than others. Even something as mundane as how to grow the toenails. Think of your brain’s sticky notes for everything it needs to do.Ī sticky note for walking. “I wouldn’t want to collect festering heaps of old sticky notes!” Just imagine keeping every sticky note you’ve ever used. Since Evernote lives in the cloud the notes never have to go away. With a physical piece of paper, especially something intended for a short lifespan, it will inevitably get thrown out. It doesn’t matter because that is the point of a sticky note. Maybe a quick shopping list you jot down after lunch.

Think like sticky notes, but digital and they can be accessed from almost any device that has an internet connection.īack when paper was a more valued resource, what would you use sticky notes for? If you don’t know what Evernote is, the core idea is a cloud-based note-taking system.

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