Incremental reading: Learning about nutrition from Wikipedia (SuperMemo 17)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as a short demonstration of what incremental reading looks like in practice, though one commenter was not convinced by it.
What it is
A five-minute SuperMemo demo of incremental reading: importing a Wikipedia article on nutrition, extracting passages, making cloze deletions and finishing the item. It lists the keyboard shortcuts used.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends rajlego · 2020-05 · on “Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?”
I have the perfect tool for you if you're willing to suffer through getting used to it: SuperMemo [1]. The basic feature it starts with is spaced repetition [2]. Spaced repetition is good. But terribly boring if you're making cards by hand. Because of that, SuperMemo has a feature that imo is just as important as SRS but much less known: incremental reading [3]. tl;dr of incremental reading: process hundreds of articles in a time efficient manner and enjoyably convert them to active recall items. For a video on it in action check this [4] More detail: incremental reading has a lot of parts but probably the most important is the priority queue and the concept of incrementally. Priority Queue:
Cites xkfm · 2018-11 · on “Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo”
You can import entire articles into Supermemo and break them down into flashcards without leaving the program. Anki just gives you flashcards. There's an incremental reading plugin for Anki, but it doesn't work very well. Incremental reading works by breaking down an article into flashcards. Basically, you go: article -> paragraph -> sentences -> flashcards (usually with cloze deletions). But, because the algo manages when you see everything, I don't have to worry about doing all of that in one step. Polar Bookshelf (getpolarized.io) is more of an open source solution for archiving documents at the moment. You can export annotations/extracts from Polar into Anki, but you don't get the spaced
Critical SamBam · 2021-08 · on “To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)”
I'm interested in incremental-reading, but the video he has really doesn't sell it for me [1] It seems like you skim through an article, extract a few facts, and add them to your memorization schedule. Would it really help you summarize the article, or help you synthesize the arguments and follow the logic leading to a conclusion? 1. [this video]