― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whenever we have an experience we relish, there's nothing like sharing it over coffee with someone close to us. At times however, we don't do it justice by glossing over the details.
Recounting of an experience in Japan:
Quickly becomes:
We fall back to speaking generally because when encountering new terms, they don't immediately become part of our Surface Lexicon – the words that we can quickly recall and use in conversation. We need to see them often so that we can reflect on them and create mental connections that add them to our lexicon.
With Benkyo Box, we built an app to help us build the surface lexicon that we want to use to tell our stories. It’s an app made exclusively for Apple platforms: iPhone, iPad, and Mac to ensure that it feels right on them. It’s fast, flexible and has a familiar interface that is inspired by the default Notes app, but with a focus on resurfacing back what is added to it so that it can truly be remembered.
Anything you'd want to be able to recall without having to reach out for your phone or computer should go into Benkyo Box. Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and other tools are still great for creating a larger reference library (i.e. your Second Brain)
It helps you remember information (which we call Cards) effectively by surfacing it to you via notifications. Depending on how well you know them, cards re-surface in longer or shorter intervals. Once you know them well enough, cards are considered “finished” and stop re-surfacing. This study method is known as Spaced Repetition and it’s awesome for learning.
