Socrates didn’t even believe in writing – he believed writing things down would weaken our memories in the long term. He believed that talking about things was a far superior way to form memories and to understand subjects deeply. He’s not completely wrong about the role of discussion and disputation [emotional connection is a potent force in memory formation], but all the same I’m glad Plato didn’t take to this thinking and actually wrote stuff down). - HN / article

we want to find the one method that optimizes both retention (memory) + recall (long term searchability) at the same time. It seems to me these two objectives are somewhat in competition.