Summary: How do you incremental reading? Incremental reading is a process whereby you extract the essence of a piece of text over time, changing it, putting it into your own words, and refining it to form a rich memory.
Very nice presentation. I took notes in Obsidian as I listened along. What I haven't integrated yet are flashcards, specifically "clozes". Coincidentally these "closure test" cards also seem to exist for Anki.
This is the first time I heard about _SuperMemo_ even though I've come across most PKM-Tools yet. The focus appears to be learning in particular though. So it is more about _note-consolidation_ rather than _note-making._ Which perhaps is why it's not commonly discussed around knowledge-management.
I too have a very imperfect and incomplete notetaking system. I'll write down notes and link them in 150 words chunk, which is an artificial constrained based on how many words I could fit in a physical flashcards. If something's important enough, I'll convert them into anki flashcards. So much of my exploration and notetaking are almost always about novel information I haven't yet entered into the system. Only extended exploration of a subject(usually with a textbook in hand) do I actually expand the 'frontier of knowledge' beyond just a handful of notes. However, my biggest concern is putting it to use, which I seemed to do almost never do except when taking notes. I should be able to reference my notes in discussion or make uses of my notes for projects like 3D printing, but I almost never do this. Perhaps because much of my network of knowledge is unexplored, even though I wrote 74,307 words in the span of about ~two years give or take at the time of this writing. So often time, there's no notes to refer to in the first place. Notes that do exist on a given subject are only one or two levels deep. Another problem is that I probably don't make use much of my notes as much as I should. I make uses of other resource, sure, but often not my own notes.
Hi, Thank you for this video! I have a few questions hope you could help clarify: 1. Do you eventually move all the "L" cards to an L-card-only location for faster daily reviews? Or do you always switch between "L" and "T" cards when reviewing every day? 2. Do you know if the priority of an extract affects its repetition date? In other words, does a card with higher priority have an earlier repetition date compared to one with lower priority created at around the same time? 3. Does SuperMemo ensure that "children extracts" will get reviewed before the "parent text" shows up again? Or the order that they show up are completely independent of the parent-child relationship? 4. If you don't review a card on its repetition day, what would happen? If I get lazy for a few days, will I get drown in reviews? 5. At the end, you compare Incremental Reading with other systems such as Zettelkasten. You mention that IR blurs the boundary between internal and external knowledge thanks to its usage of Spaced Repetition. I suppose this means you don't use Zettelkasten or other "external brain" system together with IR?
Great intro to the different ideas in that method. Lots of overlaps with other pkm stuff (progressive summarization by Tiago Forte for ex:) but also new ideas. Will give some commentary/thoughts on Twitter soon (@samuelbars)
Would be very nice if incremental reading can be done without having to adopt SuperMemo. Anki is nice but not great for reading/acquiring new information.
@@ExperimentalLearning thanks. The incremental reading add-on is not that great, but I've tried using the "Searching, PDF Reading & Note-Taking in Add Dialog" add-on (ankiweb.net/shared/info/1781298089) which mimics part of the behaviour of SuperMemo as shown in your video. It's slightly better, but still requires a lot of manual management. Not sure how high the demand is, but if someone made a cross-platform, easy-to-use app/add-on that makes incremental reading easy, it would be amazing.
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Summary: How do you incremental reading?
Incremental reading is a process whereby you extract the essence of a piece of text over time, changing it, putting it into your own words, and refining it to form a rich memory.
Good stuff. Thanks for breaking it down.
Very nice presentation.
I took notes in Obsidian as I listened along.
What I haven't integrated yet are flashcards, specifically "clozes".
Coincidentally these "closure test" cards also seem to exist for Anki.
This is the first time I heard about _SuperMemo_ even though I've come across most PKM-Tools yet.
The focus appears to be learning in particular though. So it is more about _note-consolidation_ rather than _note-making._
Which perhaps is why it's not commonly discussed around knowledge-management.
You could check out Bryan Jenks channel, he put out a video recently on spaced repetition in Obsidian. Maybe he could help out with adding flashcards,
As an aside, I see now that Anki can also allow extracts of flashcards to a pdf, so can be printed to the physical.
I too have a very imperfect and incomplete notetaking system. I'll write down notes and link them in 150 words chunk, which is an artificial constrained based on how many words I could fit in a physical flashcards.
If something's important enough, I'll convert them into anki flashcards.
So much of my exploration and notetaking are almost always about novel information I haven't yet entered into the system. Only extended exploration of a subject(usually with a textbook in hand) do I actually expand the 'frontier of knowledge' beyond just a handful of notes.
However, my biggest concern is putting it to use, which I seemed to do almost never do except when taking notes. I should be able to reference my notes in discussion or make uses of my notes for projects like 3D printing, but I almost never do this.
Perhaps because much of my network of knowledge is unexplored, even though I wrote 74,307 words in the span of about ~two years give or take at the time of this writing. So often time, there's no notes to refer to in the first place. Notes that do exist on a given subject are only one or two levels deep.
Another problem is that I probably don't make use much of my notes as much as I should. I make uses of other resource, sure, but often not my own notes.
excellent
Hi,
Thank you for this video!
I have a few questions hope you could help clarify:
1. Do you eventually move all the "L" cards to an L-card-only location for faster daily reviews? Or do you always switch between "L" and "T" cards when reviewing every day?
2. Do you know if the priority of an extract affects its repetition date? In other words, does a card with higher priority have an earlier repetition date compared to one with lower priority created at around the same time?
3. Does SuperMemo ensure that "children extracts" will get reviewed before the "parent text" shows up again? Or the order that they show up are completely independent of the parent-child relationship?
4. If you don't review a card on its repetition day, what would happen? If I get lazy for a few days, will I get drown in reviews?
5. At the end, you compare Incremental Reading with other systems such as Zettelkasten. You mention that IR blurs the boundary between internal and external knowledge thanks to its usage of Spaced Repetition. I suppose this means you don't use Zettelkasten or other "external brain" system together with IR?
Nice!!
Great intro to the different ideas in that method. Lots of overlaps with other pkm stuff (progressive summarization by Tiago Forte for ex:) but also new ideas.
Will give some commentary/thoughts on Twitter soon (@samuelbars)
Glad you liked it Samuel! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
5,000 views on a SuperMemo video!?!?!
wow didn't realise until you commented :P i should get back to making some more videos...
Would be very nice if incremental reading can be done without having to adopt SuperMemo. Anki is nice but not great for reading/acquiring new information.
There is an incremental reading addon for Anki you could try out.
@@ExperimentalLearning thanks. The incremental reading add-on is not that great, but I've tried using the "Searching, PDF Reading & Note-Taking in Add Dialog" add-on (ankiweb.net/shared/info/1781298089) which mimics part of the behaviour of SuperMemo as shown in your video. It's slightly better, but still requires a lot of manual management.
Not sure how high the demand is, but if someone made a cross-platform, easy-to-use app/add-on that makes incremental reading easy, it would be amazing.
Appreciate your video btw linking incremental reading as a more present/salient form of zettlekasten-style notes, which I'd not thought about before!