It's worth remembering the point of reading a manual: it is not to remember everything that is in it for later but to later remember 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 something is in it.
I've wondered about this. There's a kind of remembering-by-reference rather than remembering-by-value. The value seems to be that it increases the speed with which you can map an area. OTOH, in creative work fluency is valuable, and that (eventually) requires remembering-by-value
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I remember this used to be a big thing in Internet punditry. We were all learning to think on a higher level by thinking in abstraction and leaving the details to lookups/searches... Fine for manuals where you already understand the core ideas, but for how many other things?
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*value => point of r-b-value
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I've found that if you only r-by-reference you can only recall based on the reference or label but you can't find the same patter in another domain. OTOH when you r-by-value, you can see the values in different domains with regardless of labels and find analogies across domains.
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That accords with my experience, too. You think it'd be easier to abstract with the abstractions, but I certainly don't find that.
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This is how distributed cognition works. I don’t know where the keys are, but I know my wife knows.
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