Digital amnesia. Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information. Many of us take more photos and screenshots than we can use — around 20 photos a day, with around 2,000 photos stored on the average smartphone, according to estimates.

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📸 Taking screenshots may actually make you more likely to forget information, according to Binghamton University research published in the journal Memory & Cognition. The "photo-taking impairment effect" degrades memory unless the images are actively reviewed later.

🧠 The study, led by Sophia Fabrizio, suggests mechanisms like divided attention, cognitive offloading (relying on external storage instead of internal memory), and attentional disengagement (unconsciously distancing oneself from an experience) contribute to this digital amnesia.

📝 A better alternative for remembering information is writing it down by hand, a process known as "desirable difficulty," which forces more mental processing and organization of information.

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