Day 17: The One Software App I Can’t Live Without For Retaining Knowledge

#ship30for30 🧵👇

As a function of being naturally curious I used to get sucked down all the curiosity rabbit holes.

I would see a link mentioned in a newsletter or on social and immediately lose 30 minutes of my life, never to be regained again.

On any given day on @ProductHunt, there is a tool being launched offering up a better calendar, to-do list or app claiming to help you with your productivity.

Take it from me, it's very easy to lose a day's worth of productivity experimenting with the next 'productivity' app; believe me, I've done it!

Over the years, there is one that has stood the test of time and that's @readwise. Built by @homsiT & @deadly_onion, it's an app that has improved my life for the better.

With the recent introduction of @ReadwiseReader, it's become a part of my daily reading & retention flow.

Why I love Readwise

• As I'm highlighting quotes in Kindle from my favorite books, they're being imported to Readwise.

• Every morning, as part of my daily routine I review previously saved highlights. After several starts / stops , I'm now on a 164-day streak!

Why I love Readwise

• Over time, I'm recalling more and growing my knowledge

• The new Readwise Reader app now allows me to pull in feeds of my favorite newsletters. Anything I highlight there gets sync'd to Readwise.

This process moves you off of the cycle of reading articles just because they look interesting in the moment (just-in-case learning) to a model of queue'ing up article to read a time that makes sense for your workflow and immediate need (just-in-time learning).

If one of your goals in 2023 is to not only read more, but retain more to the knowledge you're acquiring, you owe to yourself to read smarter.

I can't recommend enough. It's definitely 10x'd my retention.

Yesterday's post in case you missed it:

https://twitter.com/HarryDuranFC/status/1617233782502825990