I one day, was struggling to remember when the civil war began in Lebanon. A simple date that I have seen and read over more times than I can count, yet I was unable to recall it when I actually needed in conversation.

Now this phenomenon is due to many reasons namely having developed a shorter attention span due to increased screen time, not having a strong emotional connection with the information itself etc.

Now one way that I found could potentially mitigate this forgetting of knowledge I accumulate over time is saving it in a place and reviewing it often.

So I built a system on Notion to preserve this knowledge.

Every time I learn something new, I input it in my database.

Importantly, I make sure to label the data.

The first set of tags points at the type of the specific thing I’m inputing:

The second set of tags points to the topic it is related to; here I add custom tags each time I input something that doesn’t have a corresponding existing tag:

(And of course, Andrew huberman is a tag lol)

Now, every time I come to input new knowledge I refresh my memory by going over the others very quickly, often using active recall where I read the name then try to recall the definition.

This has been working wonders for me, will share the link once it has contained enough knowledge that it is to useful to keep on hand.

Happy learning