Hi all, I would like to pick your brains on how you organise and retrieve information that you read in books (physical or ebook) and long-form articles online.
Over the years I have been getting increasingly frustrated at not being efficient in deriving meaningful value from what I have read and curated via notes and highlights from these readings. I wanted to get better at retaining what I read and also in being able to connect the dots and identifying overlapping and intersecting themes and topics across the various books and articles I have read. I also have the recurring problem of not being able to remember/find that quote or that impressive eloquent passage in a book or article that I read a few weeks or months ago. Attempts at using Evernote, Notion and other collect-everything tools have solved parts of the problem but it does get tedious and, because it is not a tool built-for-purpose, it involves a fair bit of personalisation. Services like readwise.io attack a slightly different problem from a different angle (helping learn by repetition etc). I was wondering what you have found useful in solving similar problems on your end. As I love to hack code, I have been working on a solution for the last few weeks but it is far from perfect or complete. Before I go further down this rabbit hole, I thought it makes sense to try and understand if there are existing solutions out there that works for you? Regards, Srijith
