Bjarke is wondering what to do with his life
I’m getting addicted to incremental reading in no time. During the last coupe of days I’ve added twenty or so ebooks and I’ve added at least a couple of hundreds encyclopedia articles and another twenty ebooks during the last couple of months. Maybe I’m just weird but memorizing all this and keeping track of so much information without getting lost gives me a sense of power – yeah, I’m addicted :)
Since just about no-one know about this technique I’l try to explain it: First you add a text (ebook, encyclopedia article etc) to SuperMemo. Then you start reading it and during so extract the parts of it you want to memorize. You stop reading it whenever you want to. Then SuperMemo uses its spaced repetition algorithm to determine how long you can wait before you have to continue reading the text if you are not to get confused about the content. The extracts are then processed in the same manner until they are small enough to be easily converted into question-answer elements. These elements are then introduced in the daily repetitions, and you’ll remember them with about 95% accuracy for the rest of your life as long as you run repetitions on a small subset each day.
I think I’ve gotten a lot better at it since I started but there’s definitely room for improvement. I think the most important discovery I’ve made so far is not to be scared of redundancy. Redundancy is the SuperMemo user’s best friend. All the different combination of facts should be added if you want to be able to remember all of them.
By the power of incremental reading…I have the power! ;)
