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gobryesterday at 10:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Do you use Incremental Reading? I've tried many times but I don't see the point in it, probably never got it.

Anki way makes more sense.


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testaccount42today at 1:34 PM

Yeah I use it to read HN threads, articles from my RSS reader, Wikipedia pages, code that I want to review etc. Also, material that I need to make into flashcards eventually. The ability to schedule a chunk of text and then turn it into flashcards in the same application is really valuable to me. I typically open a thread and import it a few days later after most of the comments are done. Right now I have ~40-50 tabs I will import in a few days.

This video [1] is the second step of the process, the first would be making that extract from an article or larger chunk of text imported. Often, I read a little bit of the text and just delete the whole entry if it turns out not to be good/interesting/useful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oyvBmevn8

hereme888yesterday at 11:30 PM

Exactly. Incremental reading was touted as some ultimate productivity/pleasure hack but it's impractical for the real world were humans have to synchronize with each other's calendar. It may work for Piotr because he doesn't have a schedule to follow, at all.

When I need to read and learn, it needs to happen within a timeframe. Not "some day" when it shows up in my queue again.