Neo Ideograms

Someone asked me once if ids are hard to remember. On the one hand, no: they kind of remember themselves because images stick in the mind so well. I’ll often be surprised that one for a seldom used word pops into my mind correctly after many years of not using it and probably having spent only a trivial amount of time creating it. Also, they make great sense and come in families of related ids, so they reinforce one another. On the other hand, as the creator of these, I might have created 20 versions of the id for a particular concept in my struggle to come up with something that feels just right – that clicks — so when writing it I might have to think, “let’s see, what was my latest version of that?” And there may be a conflict of my latest improved version with a version that is ingrained in my memory from long term use, in which case I will think (and feel), “I know I came up with something new for that.”