Poor recall & making notes about interesting things

[Youtani]

Hi

I really struggle with recalling interesting things that I hear or read about day to day. it’s been a lifelong issue really. It hasn’t affected my ability to get a degree and hold down a professional job. However I would love to actually remember at least some of the interesting things I learn about every day. I’ve resorted to making notes on my phone every time I come across something I want to try to remember. The notes are now quite long and disorganised so I’m wondering if there’s a better way to do this? Thanks

Have you tried recording voice notes? I have found it far easier than writing everything down

I forget such things in a matter of minutes so I have to write them down on my phone immediately. Sometimes it’s not possible and then the interesting/amusing thing is lost forever.
Maybe list them under subjects - ‘interesting’ ‘amusing’ ‘historical information’ or whatever - though there will be plenty of overlap.
I have such a list on an app called ‘pages’ then if I can’t remember the whole thing I can write one word into ‘search’ and it will come up.
I think collections of such things which are published - or at any rate, printed - are called ‘Commonplace Books’.

@Andante57 Ah thanks for telling me what they are called! I can now look into options. I think an app with some sort off tagging function would be good.

I'll get my coat

There's an app called obsidian that works well for this streeti of thing

With over 1300 notes on my phone, this is something I'm also interested in!