> But when I return to the material a few months later, I may as well re-read the whole thing for the amount of detail I've retained. I am trying to solve this

> But when I return to the material a few months later, I may as well re-read the whole thing for the amount of detail I've retained. I am trying to solve this particular issue in online learning. You may read a lot of books and watch quite a number of videos, but after few weeks or months, you remember zilch. Things are different when you are learning and applying, for instance, trying out a new framework or programming langauge library. However, most of the things are not really straightforward to "apply and understand". You are always going to forget, no matter what. The real question is can you recover (faster) and retrace whatever you have learned. Think about stuffs you read up in high school or universities or colleges. How much of it is you can recollect? Can you "recover" what you have learned and "resume" from the point you left? My solution is creating a conversational learning medium. Users are forced to respond to write their own inputs and observations. These inputs then act as "memory breadcrumbs" for you to retrace when you again come back later on. And then you can resume or update your mental models/abstractions about the topic. I have written a comics-based essay on this topic: https://primerlabs.io/comics/memory-breadcrumbs-comics/ https://primerlabs.io/comics/memory-breadcrumbs-comics/ It took time for me to get it right, because of my perfectionism issues. There are two free courses right now: Python-I and Fundamentals of Computing. The features of the platform are: - Automatically generates flashcards which you can export as Anki - Generate a personalized Book after completion - Retrace Mode to retrace whatever you have learned If anyone wants to try out conversational learning medium, you can use it at https://primerlabs.io/ https://primerlabs.io/ ( No Signup Required Whatsoever).