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Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by alessivs »

tra3 wrote: post #54
thisiszilff wrote: post #16

Take a look at incremental reading -- the big app in this space is supermemo, but there are plugins for Anki (another app) that might make it work. Incremental reading is great because aside from tackling remembering things you've read, it also helps schedule what you're reading, so each day you have a 'session' and then what you read is decided by the program.

Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading. Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically. [0]: https://getpolarized.io

That isn't it either. See [1]

There are analyses and processes (both software-based and relating to one's assessment of learning significance when deciding to add material) only possible with the priority queue implementation in SuperMemo.

[1]: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Minimum_definition_of_incrementa...

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by LittleFishyChan »

abetusk wrote: post #26

People are giving app suggestions (supermemo, Anki), which is great, but the underlying concept is "spaced repetition" [0]. Tools like Anki (and supermemo, I presume) give you flash cards at an interval based on the spaced repetition idea. Our memory is structured so that we forget things at an exponential rate (exp(-a t)). The better we remember things, the smaller the coefficient (a). You can look around for pictur…

I’ve been using SuperMemo for almost 16 years, every single day. I can’t think of a better way to guarantee that I will retain stuff outside of using some kind of algorithm to tell me when to refresh desired information. I think of it more as “computer augmented memory” rather than “I’m letting the computer think for me.” I use it in the morning to review my cards but other than that I have little interaction with it (until I add more cards, which happens during periods of down time)

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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reciprocity wrote: post #21

One of the most successful methods I've found for me is to rewrite the material. I haven't seen anyone suggest this yet. By rewriting the material, you are recoding it. You are forcing yourself to think about the information differently: what you are doing is explaining it to yourself. This to me is far more effective than something like highlighting, because in rewriting that material, you are also clarifying your u…

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Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by thescribbblr »

reciprocity wrote: post #21

One of the most successful methods I've found for me is to rewrite the material. I haven't seen anyone suggest this yet. By rewriting the material, you are recoding it. You are forcing yourself to think about the information differently: what you are doing is explaining it to yourself. This to me is far more effective than something like highlighting, because in rewriting that material, you are also clarifying your u…

+1

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by AndyNemmity »

gremloni wrote: post #61
reciprocity wrote: post #21

One of the most successful methods I've found for me is to rewrite the material. I haven't seen anyone suggest this yet. By rewriting the material, you are recoding it. You are forcing yourself to think about the information differently: what you are doing is explaining it to yourself. This to me is far more effective than something like highlighting, because in rewriting that material, you are also clarifying your u…

I can vouch for this. I just gave an SDE a bad performance review because he could never recall any code he worked on or how it worked…

Oh gosh, I am pretty bad at this. The only thing that seems to help is being on keto, in which case my recall is amazing.

Never got a poor performance review for it, but that's a real issue I have.

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by gremloni »

ageofwant wrote: post #85
gremloni wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he smells like pot.

Perhaps you should consider your part in that. Or if you could have had a more positive impact on his life apart from kicking him when he was down.

Unfortunately we do stack ranking so it wouldn’t be fair to anyone else on the team. He also refuses to say anything in 1:1s with regular nudging.

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by anttiharju »

reciprocity wrote: post #21

One of the most successful methods I've found for me is to rewrite the material. I haven't seen anyone suggest this yet. By rewriting the material, you are recoding it. You are forcing yourself to think about the information differently: what you are doing is explaining it to yourself. This to me is far more effective than something like highlighting, because in rewriting that material, you are also clarifying your u…

+1

This is what I do for most of my university courses. It's super not efficient time-wise, but my grades have been generally good thanks to it.

Plus if I have to write an essay about anything related I can just ctrl+f the material I've written so far and get my facts straight very quickly.

Re: Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

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Post by boppo1 »

MrDresden wrote: post #82
boppo1 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like this approach. I'm likely to overload future me though. How do you determine where the limit is?

It is a balancing act, and it changes over time. What I considered important to review at X interval last year, is perhaps not that important this year and so I lengthen the time between reviews (simply move the link). And at some point the content is firmly embedded and does not need regular review.

Thanks!
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