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I haven't read the entire article thoroughly but I think "Queue management for inbound digital content" is something implemented in an SRS app called SuperMemo.
by rajlego 7y ago
I haven't read the entire article thoroughly but I think "Queue management for inbound digital content" is something implemented in an SRS app called SuperMemo. The way it's intended to work is that you have content and over time break it down and through the scheduling system you eventually end up with extracts small enough to be made into SRS cards (though it's more complicated than that in actual use). It has a lot of weaknesses, mainly because a lot of it is based on features from IE (thus poor PDF support) but I still find it extremely useful. If I find any article that looks interesting I just throw it there and eventually I'll import it, go through it with incremental reading (https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading) and eventually dismiss it.
Edit: I also ought to mention, it has a very good priority/interval system for scheduling when I see things. Essentially things I give lower priority are less likely to show up and when I'm going through my material/doing my reps I'm more likely to see high priority material. There's a general issue that you find the thing you see soonest most shiny and thus a strong likelihood of overprioritizing new material but SuperMemo helps intersperse everything to prevent that.
It sort of can do the central search thing too to an extent, I can search through my collection of imported articles/cards and find stuff that's generally relevant to my interests. Though how useful it is depends largely on how long you've used the app. I am also reminded of the brain (https://www.thebrain.com/ https://www.thebrain.com/) but I'm not super familiar with it.
Have you heard of Ted Nelson's Xanadu? I've only looked into it a little but I was reminded of it when you talked about better reading.
- jborichevskiy 7y agoThank you for bringing up SuperMemo - I remember reading through Piotr's article on Genius [0] and thought it was a wonderful piece on the balance of creativity and memorization. I've looked through SuperMemo's features and while I completely subscribe to the idea of spaced repetition (I have used Anki for some periods) I was put off by the user interface; perhaps I should try it again. > There's a general issue that you find the thing you see soonest most shiny and thus a strong likelihood of overprioritizing new material but SuperMemo helps intersperse everything to prevent that. I really the idea of this approach to keep everything at its proper priority level. Thanks for linking the brain as well - I haven't come across it. I am vaguely familiar with Xandu as well but it warrants another deep dive for sure. 0 - https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/genius https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/geni...
- rajlego 7y agoI love that article, it changed a lot of my thinking regarding people's potential for success. Woz has a lot of other articles you might also find interesting here: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru. I've especially read through a lot of his articles on sleep and memory and found them invaluable. SuperMemo's interface was not designed with the beginner in mind. When I first started trying it even basic operations frustrated me to no end. But now that I use it as a high(er) level user, it feels very very intuitive and you start to understand why it was designed in a way that looks so unappealing at first. If you do decide to try it again, I would highly recommend joining the SM discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK). There are a lot of very helpful people there.