How do you remember what you read?

Book notes, highlights, summaries, Readwise.

Concept: active recall

Answers by date: 2 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice did not change in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied)	Ali	Ali does not trust his memory, so he takes notes on what he reads, watches and listens to, and takes them in a way that he will stumble across them again, since otherwise he might forget they exist.	Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life 00:05:46
2018-05-14	Ali	Ali recommends the Kindle's highlighting feature: revisiting your highlights is a good way to take more from a book than reading it once.	Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal 00:08:59

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