“Faraday’s Notebooks: the Active Organization of Creative Science”, 1991 (; backlinks):
Michael Faraday’s notebooks constitute one of the largest and most revealing archives left to us by a major scientist.
These records reveal a good deal of systematic invention and exploration of recording techniques by Faraday, work that reveals much about his thinking about science, as well as of the role of memory in general in scientific thinking.
…Why are Faraday’s records so extensive? In part, it is because Faraday was mistrustful of his own memory (see 1965, pp 473, 491–501; 1974). Faraday more than once repeated an experiment that he had earlier completed and apparently forgotten about, and his use of elaborate memory-retrieval devices (see below) makes a similar point.