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by aeternus 2548 days ago
The problem is that word processors and word wrap make it too easy to move text, destroying the absolute and sometimes even relative position.

Much of human memory evolved to remember locations, and almost all of the top memory competitors use locality association ("Memory Palace"/loci) as their primary method.

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If that were true, then typing would be vastly superior to handwriting for everyone who simply chose not to copy-paste.