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Organization & Repetition. Any material which is worth knowing, but that will not become part of a routine (i.e coding patterns or structures that would be use
by MrDresden 5y ago
Organization & Repetition.
Any material which is worth knowing, but that will not become part of a routine (i.e coding patterns or structures that would be used everyday) which would enforce the learning through repetition will need to be reviewed/used/consumed at regular artificial interval instead.
I've had a personal wiki for years, and moved to Obsidian.md two years ago. Content that I find usefull or worth keeping is broken down and rewritten into my wiki.
Here it is important to note that simply copy pasting long form text from a source does not work as well as writing the content in your own style. Writing it down, and having to reason about the content as I am doing so helps me retain it for longer.
I then have a list of content that I review at regular intervals (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, 3/5 years). These are simply links within my wiki.
The tricky part here is to not overload your future self. Sure I can write down pages and pages of information and just expect future me to consume it. But in reality I know there is a limit.
- boppo1 5y agoI like this approach. I'm likely to overload future me though. How do you determine where the limit is?
- MrDresden 5y agoIt is a balancing act, and it changes over time. What I considered important to review at X interval last year, is perhaps not that important this year and so I lengthen the time between reviews (simply move the link). And at some point the content is firmly embedded and does not need regular review.
- boppo1 5y agoThanks!