Pragmatic method to remember everything from your notes.

Trigger points/words that help you remember a “piece of knowledge”, a concept, and the things associated with them without significant effort.

Keywords are for externalized memory (second brain), while “trigger points/words” are for your memory (your natural brain).

When you skim through a note that was taken a couple of years back, you’ll find those very few highlighted words can bring back all the understandings that you had while taking the note. After encountering those words you feel familiar with the idea which was not the case before glancing at the trigger words.

The above snippets were taken from my recent article, 5th part of the series “The Knowledge Flow” → Purpose of Trigger points in PKM (No, NOT keywords)

Why do you need to remember?

Knowing what you know (at least what your knowledge base has inside it) will allow you to the next step of choosing what piece of knowledge should be used where, when you produce something (article, book, etc) on the fly.