The first Michael Nielsen link has a part where he discusses using Anki to achieve a goal vs. just remembering for the sake of remembering which seems relevant to your question.
This thread I started on LW about my own observations from using Anki also touches on the question you raise. Personally, I haven’t used Readwise but I have had general positive experiences using Anki. That said, similar to Nielsen, my worst Anki experiences have come from trying to remember books for the sake of remembering them vs. using the content for some sort of goal. I use goal broadly here to include writing a blog post/article/book, solving problems/exercises, writing a program, etc.
I sometimes feel the way I review book quotes is akin to brand advertising. I just want those ideas to be « front of mind ». Space repetition puts me in control of what themes surface in my thinking and minimises decency bias.
Yes! If you haven’t seen the following articles already, I recommend at least skimming them:
Gwern’s Spaced Repetition
Michael Nielsen’s Augmenting Long-term Memory & Using spaced repetition to see through a piece of mathematics
The first Michael Nielsen link has a part where he discusses using Anki to achieve a goal vs. just remembering for the sake of remembering which seems relevant to your question.
This thread I started on LW about my own observations from using Anki also touches on the question you raise. Personally, I haven’t used Readwise but I have had general positive experiences using Anki. That said, similar to Nielsen, my worst Anki experiences have come from trying to remember books for the sake of remembering them vs. using the content for some sort of goal. I use goal broadly here to include writing a blog post/article/book, solving problems/exercises, writing a program, etc.
I sometimes feel the way I review book quotes is akin to brand advertising. I just want those ideas to be « front of mind ». Space repetition puts me in control of what themes surface in my thinking and minimises decency bias.