For a problem like this, remembering for something rare in the indefinite future, the important thing is to remember at that time that you know something. At that point, if you’ve put it in a reasonable place, you can find it. It seems to me that the key problem is the jump from “have to write a bio” to “how to write a bio,” that is, making sure you pause and think about what you know or have written down somewhere. Some people claim success with Anki here, but it doesn’t make sense to me.
What most people do with bios is that they reuse them, or at least look at the old one whenever needing a new one. As Maia says, if you write an improved bio now, you can find it next time, when you look for the most recent version. But that doesn’t necessarily help remember why it was an improvement. If you have a standard place for bios, you can store lots of variants (lengths, types of conferences, resume, etc), along with instructions on what distinguishes them. But I think what most people do is search their email for the last one they submitted. If you can’t learn to look in a more organized place, you could send yourself an email with all the bios and the instructions, so that it comes up when you search email.
For a problem like this, remembering for something rare in the indefinite future, the important thing is to remember at that time that you know something. At that point, if you’ve put it in a reasonable place, you can find it. It seems to me that the key problem is the jump from “have to write a bio” to “how to write a bio,” that is, making sure you pause and think about what you know or have written down somewhere. Some people claim success with Anki here, but it doesn’t make sense to me.
What most people do with bios is that they reuse them, or at least look at the old one whenever needing a new one. As Maia says, if you write an improved bio now, you can find it next time, when you look for the most recent version. But that doesn’t necessarily help remember why it was an improvement. If you have a standard place for bios, you can store lots of variants (lengths, types of conferences, resume, etc), along with instructions on what distinguishes them. But I think what most people do is search their email for the last one they submitted. If you can’t learn to look in a more organized place, you could send yourself an email with all the bios and the instructions, so that it comes up when you search email.
Anki doesn’t work for me on this, agreed. The above suggestion seems to dominate this one.