How to Remember What You Read

Re:How to Remember What You Read by simonw on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:01PM (#28261720)

I've had some success using the Kindle app highlight feature - highlighting key points as I go along, and then later reviewing just my highlights (which can also be exported). You can add notes to the highlights too.

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by anirudhgarg on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:19PM (#28261815)

Readwise (readwise.io) can make that automatic

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by tagolli on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:15PM (#28262568)

Readwise is awesome! Plug: I made an extension to show you a Readwise quote in your new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readwise-new-tab/i...

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by sec400 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:10PM (#28261767)

Would be great if it worked for books sent to the device not bought through the Amazon kindle store

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by kej on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:57PM (#28261999)

I do this with Google Play Books, and my notes magically appear as text files in Google Drive.

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by etherio on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:21PM (#28261831)

I do this too using my remarkable (reader tablet )and then scripts that export highlights / notes which I then index for as plaintext - it makes this process much more seamless.

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by d4rkp4ttern on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:46AM (#28265412)

Would you mind elaborating — What is your exact process to export highlights and notes from RM2 ?

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by etherio on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:23AM (#28266204)

I use https://github.com/lucasrla/remarks, which OCRs (text recognition) your highlights to extract what exactly was highlighted, and also outputs screenshots of all pages on which I wrote notes.

This way I can go through my annotations sequentially, save highlights / their main ideas, and reformulate my notes into plaintext a bit more clearly.

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by d4rkp4ttern on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:07PM (#28267893)

this looks very useful, thanks!

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by ngai_aku on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:33PM (#28262387)

I’ve heard that the Remarkable does not function well as a reader. Is that true?

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by etherio on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:43PM (#28262680)

This is just subjective, but I use it to read many books and enjoy it. I can scribble / highlight / notetake very easily and find the whole experience quite convenient.

Where did you hear that?

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by ngai_aku on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:09PM (#28270609)

Oh, I was just reading reviews (probably on reddit?), and that seemed to be a consistent opinion. It looks like a really cool device, but I've heard it's a little one-dimensional.

Edit: Looks like your link to the sibling comment is for extracting annotations from pdf. Are most of the books you're reading on remarkable in pdf format instead of epub?

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Re:How to Remember What You Read by etherio on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:24PM (#28270701)

Yeah usually I read in PDF format for this purpose. Not sure but maybe there are alternatives for epub.

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