How to keep track of what you've learnt
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How to keep track of what you've learnt
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Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#2If someone made a really intuitive web app for this I would totally use it. Usability would be key though. Painless to enter data, easy tagging system, and easy wandering system to keep on top of everything.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#3I don't see a single mention of long term memory in this article. Cognitive psychology is not a grab bag to use for marketing.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#4If someone made a really intuitive web app for this I would totally use it. Usability would be key though. Painless to enter data, easy tagging system, and easy wandering system to keep on top of everything.
Making an intuitive app would be half the problem. The other half is finding enough customers to pay for it - there is no obvious way to segment and/or target users, other that a single life-hacker post that you're going to get.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#5I write down things I want to remember later in Emacs org-mode files. It would be easy to set this up with org's SCHEDULED marker.
Just make a macro to emit a bunch of SCHEDULED markers for suitably spaced future dates, run it on new items, and review the items when they come up in the agenda in the future.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#6I don't see a single mention of long term memory in this article. Cognitive psychology is not a grab bag to use for marketing.
The idea is pretty much spaced repetition learning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition), even though article doesn't call it that or make any references to the existing work.
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#7If someone made a really intuitive web app for this I would totally use it. Usability would be key though. Painless to enter data, easy tagging system, and easy wandering system to keep on top of everything.
Here is my app. Needs some more work on the really intuitive part: http://flashcarddb.com
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#8This is a different method, but for the last few years I've been using Personal Brain (http://thebrain.com) for note taking on pretty much everything I read. There's a free version available that is unrestricted enough for most uses.
Think of it as a mind map where every node has the potential to be the central node and where connections can be made from any node to any other. Mine, for example, has several thousand nodes on topics from everything ranging from science to literature to my business ideas to pretty much anything else.
Having everything in one place is great because I find that I'll often stumble on something I added months or years before and I can associate it with what I'm doing now. It often exposes patterns, reminds me of stuff I'd forgotten and it's fun to explore.
I haven't found any other software like it. I'm not particularly anxious to replace it but I think some competition would be great. A web app or something non-Java would be interesting.
I've written about it more here, and in several other blog articles: http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/archives/2008/07/18/personal... . I also did a quick video of how I use it awhile back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTNlRPAq3gE .
Hopefully that doesn't sound too much like an infomercial, I'm not associated with PersonalBrain in any way, but I do really, really like using the software and I'm surprised it isn't used more widely.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#9If someone made a really intuitive web app for this I would totally use it. Usability would be key though. Painless to enter data, easy tagging system, and easy wandering system to keep on top of everything.
I tried this. It failed due to lack of revenue. I was trying an ad-supported model.
Re: How to keep track of what you've learnt
#10If someone made a really intuitive web app for this I would totally use it. Usability would be key though. Painless to enter data, easy tagging system, and easy wandering system to keep on top of everything.
Here is my app. Needs some more work on the really intuitive part: http://flashcarddb.com
looks like the '90s