Today marks day 1337 of using Readwise for spaced repetition. It’s consistently the top 2 minutes of my day!
If you read a lot of books or spend a lot of time on Twitter, give it a try. The first month is FREE. It’s simple. It works. I like it. That is all.
We forget most of what we consume in a few days or weeks. The forgetting curve of newly-learned knowledge depends on various factors like how meaningful it is to you, the difficulty level of the information, your stress levels, the kind of sleep you get after it, etc. A couple of ways to combat this are using mnemonic techniques for better memory representation and spaced repetition based on active recall.
P.S. I have set up a Readwise Broadcast called 📚 Swapnil’s Highlights. If you sign up, you’ll start receiving an assortment of my curated highlights from my favorite books and articles on a weekly basis. Some of these passages might inspire you to check out a book I’ve enjoyed or maybe even spark a thought-provoking conversation between us :) You can sign up here: https://readwise.io/@swap