🔼: # Zeigarnik Effect --- First observed by Russian psychologist Bulma Zeigarnik, the Zeigarnik Effect states that people better remember unfinished tasks than finished tasks. Unfinished tasks use up bandwidth in our [[💡 Working Memory]], whether they're important or not. But by externalizing those tasks, by writing them down in such a way that convinces us they'll get taken care of, we queue our minds to stop thinking about them. ## Related [[IBNU]], [[💡 Focus & Concentration|Attention]], [[🔑 The mind can only hold so much]], [[Getting Things Done]] [^1]: