I've been thinking about writing a simple script to transform my highlights into Anki [2] cards to achieve the same thing but without sharing my reading habits and highlights with a private company.
Maybe I'll get started tonight...
https://blog.readwise.io/remember-more-of-what-you-read-with...
It creates an Anki deck with one card per highlight. The "hint" side of each card shows the book title and the 5 most important words/phrases from the clipping (as determined by Rake [1]). It could also be pretty easily modified to do cloze deletion (fill in the blank) using the "most important" words as the "blanks" on the hint card.
My thinking was that this would help sort of jog your memory of the highlight without just showing the whole thing immediately.
I made a deck of several hundred cards and it seems to work great. Would love if someone tried it out too.
My current trick is to use a product called Readwise. I highlight stuff I want to remember in Kindle, and it syncs with my Kindle and everyday emails me a random set of my highlights. It's a paid product but I pay for it and recommend it to everyone I know who reads. Was game changing for me.