https://heaphomestead.com/ Keeping what happened, and remembering what you read - memorials, occasions and the memory game behind them. Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://heaphomestead.com/songs-that-misremember https://heaphomestead.com/songs-that-misremember Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A few songs catch themselves remembering wrong and say so inside the song - and in doing it they describe retrieval more accurately than most of us manage when somebody asks us what happened. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-game-of-match https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-game-of-match Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A flip-card memory game built from everything shared publicly in the library. One half of each pair is a portrait and the other is the name, so what you are remembering is which face goes with whom - and every pair you find turns into a link to that subject. Six, eight or twelve pairs, no account, nothing kept. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-page-listing-what-there-is-to-study https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-page-listing-what-there-is-to-study Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Every subject and experience shared publicly now has one place to browse them from - what each one is, how much there is to read, and the opening of its first moment, so you can tell whether it is for you before opening it. The front page shows a few; the full list is at /what-to-study, and it keeps itself current rather than being whatever was true the last time the site was built. https://heaphomestead.com/memory-jogged https://heaphomestead.com/memory-jogged Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why a taste or a song can drop you into a moment you have not thought about in thirty years, and what that tells you about which details are worth keeping. https://heaphomestead.com/anesthesia-and-memory https://heaphomestead.com/anesthesia-and-memory Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 You do not forget an operation. There is nothing there to forget, and that was the intention. https://heaphomestead.com/memories-issued https://heaphomestead.com/memories-issued Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Oblivion, The 6th Day, Moon and Severance are about memory you did not live, and the uncomfortable fact that your own has been quietly rewritten too. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-rsvp-on-the-page-itself https://heaphomestead.com/#note-rsvp-on-the-page-itself Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Guests can answer an occasion right where the invitation is - yes, maybe or no, how many are coming, and a note only the host reads. Answers can be changed later, and the host sees the count without chasing anyone. No account needed, if the occasion allows posting without one. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-choose-when-you-are-tested https://heaphomestead.com/#note-choose-when-you-are-tested Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A studied batch used to come back exactly one week after you studied it. Now you pick the gap when you save it - five hours, a day, three days, a week or two weeks - so a quick review and something you really want to keep can be spaced differently. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-put-an-occasion-or-memorial-on-a-tv https://heaphomestead.com/#note-put-an-occasion-or-memorial-on-a-tv Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 One button turns the page into a slideshow for a screen in the room: photos, the story, and messages as guests post them. A settings panel on the screen sets how fast it moves, what it shows, and whether captions appear. https://heaphomestead.com/witnesses-under-questioning https://heaphomestead.com/witnesses-under-questioning Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two witnesses in 12 Angry Men are certain, and wrong, in exactly the ways the research says people are certain and wrong - and the part most retellings get backwards. https://heaphomestead.com/road-trip-to-remember https://heaphomestead.com/road-trip-to-remember Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Chris Hemsworth and his father rode back through their own history on camera. The technique has a name, an evidence base, and nothing in it requires a film crew. https://heaphomestead.com/songs-about-memory https://heaphomestead.com/songs-about-memory Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why four bars can hand back a whole summer, the four things songwriters keep saying about remembering, and why music is so often the last thing to go. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-page-that-explains-the-parts https://heaphomestead.com/#note-a-page-that-explains-the-parts Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Occasions, memorials, volumes, experiences and subjects now have one page explaining what each is for and how they fit together, rather than each explaining itself somewhere you had to already be. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-guest-photos-as-a-gallery https://heaphomestead.com/#note-guest-photos-as-a-gallery Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An occasion's guest wall can switch to a grid of just the pictures people posted, instead of scrolling past every message to find them. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-pages-can-say-who-made-them https://heaphomestead.com/#note-pages-can-say-who-made-them Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A memorial, occasion or volume can show its creator's name, and each one has a switch to turn that off - a memorial is often meant to speak only for the person it is about. https://heaphomestead.com/#note-choose-the-name-you-appear-as https://heaphomestead.com/#note-choose-the-name-you-appear-as Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Accounts have a display name now. It is what shows when you create something or post on a guest wall, in place of the email address you sign in with. https://heaphomestead.com/memories-in-film https://heaphomestead.com/memories-in-film Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How films from Memento to Inside Out picture memory, and where they get it right - reconstruction, unreliable narrators, and why the montage is closer to the truth than the filing cabinet. https://heaphomestead.com/nostalgia https://heaphomestead.com/nostalgia Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Nostalgia was once classed as an illness. It turns out to be one of the more useful things the mind does with the past. https://heaphomestead.com/healthy-memory https://heaphomestead.com/healthy-memory Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Practical, scientifically-backed habits that protect cognitive function: spaced repetition, active recall, and telling somebody the story. https://heaphomestead.com/why-we-forget https://heaphomestead.com/why-we-forget Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We think of memories as recordings. They behave more like a leaky bucket - and a healthy dose of self-doubt turns out to improve retention. https://heaphomestead.com/what-is-a-memory https://heaphomestead.com/what-is-a-memory Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How the brain stores and retains a story, and why context, active recall and narrative beat staring at isolated facts.