Classic psychology put short-term capacity near “seven, plus or minus two” chunks — phone digits, words, or simple patterns you juggle before they fade.
Modern work often finds a smaller average when items are complex, and chunking (grouping) stretches the limit. Attention is the bottleneck more than a hard disk slot count.
Lists feel endless until you try to hold them bare. Notes, habits, and spaced repetition outsource what working memory was never built to warehouse.
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