Imagine walking into your home and seeing your ideas pinned to the walls. Not with tape or thumbtacks, but floating—anchored in space, yet alive with movement and meaning. A quote above your writing desk. A mind map in your hallway. A recipe hovering above your kitchen counter.
It sounds futuristic. But with devices like Apple’s Vision Pro and the rise of spatial computing, this future might be closer than we think.
Long before search engines, before notebooks, even before writing, there was a method for remembering. The method of loci—what the ancients called the memory palace. You would mentally walk through a familiar building, placing ideas along the way. Recall came not from repetition, but from space. Knowledge had location. Memory had architecture.
Now, spatial computing offers us a way to externalize that idea. To build memory palaces not in our heads, but in our homes.
You leave notes not in apps, but on your walls. You walk through your apartment and see your plans unfolding, your thoughts living with you—not hidden behind a lock screen.
We’ve spent the last two decades flattening our knowledge into screens. Notes live in clouds, lists hide in apps, thoughts get lost in tabs. But our minds don’t work that way. We evolved in physical space. We remember better when we move through environments. What we need is not more storage—but better placement.
Spatial interfaces—AR, VR, mixed reality—might be the bridge. They let us organize ideas the way we naturally understand the world: spatially, visually, contextually.
This isn’t about productivity hacks. It’s about designing a better relationship with our own thoughts. One where thinking doesn’t feel like wrestling with cluttered screens, but like walking through a well-organized room—one you built yourself.
Maybe that’s the future we’re heading toward. Not one of disappearing into devices, but of letting the digital quietly blend into the physical. Where memory isn’t just something we carry, but something we live inside.