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Comment by 8Gaston8 on Do you trust the research on handwriting vs. typing for notes? · 2020-06-23T21:46:30.850Z · LW · GW

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.

Comment by 8Gaston8 on Do you trust the research on handwriting vs. typing for notes? · 2020-06-23T21:44:04.895Z · LW · GW

I forgot to answer this. Readwise actually has built-in an option to easily transform your highlights into either questions or close deletions. Those will then show up as such the next time the highlight needs to be reviewed.

Comment by 8Gaston8 on Do you trust the research on handwriting vs. typing for notes? · 2020-04-24T18:12:44.124Z · LW · GW

Has anyone got experience using Anki or similar flash card based spaced repetition? I’m currently testing an app called Readwise which lets you import notes from books and then easily create quizzes from them.

This makes it extremely easy to prepare cards to study which reduces the attention spent in the material but on the other hand I expect the learnt material to stick around for as long as the repetition is done,