Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
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Re: Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
#2I've been using Obsidian recently and I can say it's had a big impact on my life. When I was younger I used to read a lot, but i hardly remember anything. Now, when I read something important, I'm sure to summarize it in Obsidian. I can remember it easier and even if I can't, I know where to go to find that information.
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#3I've been using Obsidian recently and I can say it's had a big impact on my life. When I was younger I used to read a lot, but i hardly remember anything. Now, when I read something important, I'm sure to summarize it in Obsidian. I can remember it easier and even if I can't, I know where to go to find that information.
You can use llamaindex to load your vault and parse it to a local LLM (you can use openai if you’re comfortable with it). You end up getting your own personal search engine and it’s amazing. I really should finish my write up about it (also written in Obsidian)
Re: Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
#4Next step reviewing (rewriting) those summaries. Currently using Anki for this, anyone has success using other tools?
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#5Derek Sivers does this and has a section of his site with all his notes: https://sive.rs/book
Great source of interesting reads, too. So some potential prosocial utility there, too.
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#6For context, this article is specifically referring to reading for comprehension (not for pleasure).
Re: Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
#7I've been using Obsidian recently and I can say it's had a big impact on my life. When I was younger I used to read a lot, but i hardly remember anything. Now, when I read something important, I'm sure to summarize it in Obsidian. I can remember it easier and even if I can't, I know where to go to find that information.
Why obsidian?
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#9I couldn’t disagree more. For me it’s much more important to have a broad knowledge and gain retention and comprehension by repeated readings of books I enjoyed. Writing summaries might be good, but certainly not at the expense of not reading as many new books
Re: Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
#10Next step reviewing (rewriting) those summaries. Currently using Anki for this, anyone has success using other tools?
I love Readwise.