With the proliferation of note-taking apps and other tech-savvy tools, the possibilities for capturing and retrieving ideas, at any moment, are almost endless.
Ancient orators had used artificial memory systems, mentally attaching their ideas onto statues, or objects in the rooms of a building, so that later, in their minds, they could revisit those statues and rooms, retrieve their ideas, and thus give seven-hour speeches without note cards.
Retrieving photography ideas corresponding to a given location facilitates the usage of smart cameras, where there is a high interest among amateurs and enthusiasts to take astonishing photos at anytime and in any location.
VoiceNotes explores the problem of capturing and retrieving spontaneous ideas, the use of speech as data, and the use of speech input and output in the user interface for a hand-held computer without a visual display.
West points out that literary historians such as C.S. Lewis and Lionel Trilling retrieved important ideas from her work, and she has garnered enthusiasm "even" among philosophers including Gilbert Ryle and Leo Strauss.
He stopped thinking there was any one "right" person and began to think "you could take seven, eight, nine or ten of these people (his dates) and you could marry any one of them and have a good marriage". Then, when he found a new woman he wanted to marry, he retrieved the idea of one true love, saying such things as, " She was different from all the rest.
Janine, come to". The struggle to see life clearly, to isolate telling moments, gets stranger still when remembering anything has become a chore, when it's work to retrieve the same idea (like the word at the line's end) again and again.
She tapped on her iPhone to retrieve notes, tossed out ideas about how the show would unfold and promised to bring "everyone" to the opening.
Data reuse and repurpose calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse sources.
But I could see his paddle floating away, and I suddenly had the bright idea to retrieve it for him.
