#### Time stamping transient information in your material is useful to indicate the degree of obsolescence --- When memorizing or learning information, that can become irrelevant and obsolete over time it is useful to stamp that information in your learning system like Anki with metadata so you know when to update or remove it. Common information that is temporally sensitive include + Statistics figures with the year they were collected + Software apps/languages what versions were used When new info arises these tags will allow you to update your information + These tags/stamps themselves are not important to memorize unless the goal was to monitor the temporal change of something in which now the stamps are the desired input data --- Tags: [[Learning]] - [[Memory]] - [[Memorizaton]] - [[Spaced Repetition]] - [[Knowledge Formation]] References: [[( 2020-09-09 Effective Learning Twenty Rules of Formulating Knowledge]] Related: - [[( 2020-09-04 Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn Surrender to This Algorithm]]