Greek word for a reminder or note taking system, used as tool for meditation. Foucault separates this from intimate diaries or spiritual accounts
The writing of hupomnemata contrasts with this dissipation in fixing the acquired elements and in constituting them, as it were, “from the past,” to which it is always possible to return and retire.
one detaches the soul from concern for the future in order to bend it toward meditation on the past.
must be reread from time to time so as to reactualize their contents
-“Writing the Self”, Michel Foucault
By meditating daily on sentences that made it real to you how you wanted to live, you would remember to do the right thing—you would remember to practice it during the day (simply thinking about it is not going to change you). And gradually, you would become that sort of person.
“How not to forget what matters”, Henrik Karlsson