I’ve found that I’m getting a lot more value out of non-fiction books / guides than I used to by using the following process:
Read through book once normally
Sit down in front of computer with Anki open, scan through each page quickly
Any insights that I think are valuable, get turned into a new card in my main deck, and tagged with the book’s name.
Only useful if you are reading through essays, books, etc that have insights you want to take away and keep, I suppose.
(Most of my recorded books are programming or business specific so far, but a good general example to make into cards that work for you is CPR & resuscitation guidelines.)
I tried doing something like this once, but step 2 ended up being too boring for me to do immediately after step 1 (my brain kept saying “but we just saw this!”). I also tried combining step 1 and step 2 but this introduced a trivial inconvenience into the process of reading which just made me read less often.
I’ve found that I’m getting a lot more value out of non-fiction books / guides than I used to by using the following process:
Read through book once normally
Sit down in front of computer with Anki open, scan through each page quickly
Any insights that I think are valuable, get turned into a new card in my main deck, and tagged with the book’s name.
Only useful if you are reading through essays, books, etc that have insights you want to take away and keep, I suppose.
(Most of my recorded books are programming or business specific so far, but a good general example to make into cards that work for you is CPR & resuscitation guidelines.)
I tried doing something like this once, but step 2 ended up being too boring for me to do immediately after step 1 (my brain kept saying “but we just saw this!”). I also tried combining step 1 and step 2 but this introduced a trivial inconvenience into the process of reading which just made me read less often.