I follow a simple rule: if I don't write it down, I know I will forget it. It's not a question of if I'll forget it, but when. And when that time comes, I'm abl

I follow a simple rule: if I don't write it down, I know I will forget it. It's not a question of if I'll forget it, but when. And when that time comes, I'm able to do a search and remind myself of my thoughts about the book/article/podcast/whatever. With that out of the mind, how to do that is easy. Just annotate whatever you're consuming, then look through those annotations, and paraphrase them in a way that it makes sense for you. I do that after every few book chapters, or every few articles in my Pocket with a tag `extract`. I can automate that as well, but annotations alone are not "knowledge" that belongs in my knowledge base. I also pay attention to properly reference stuff, so that I could easily back up my claims in whichever circumstance I need to do so. This is the most common use case of retrieving info from my knowledge base. I vaguely remember something, I look it up in my kb, and I can phrase it better and back it up with sources if I think it's necessary.