MasterHowToLearn - Why SuperMemo Trashes Any Note-taking System (Including OneNote and Evernote)
OneNote/Evernote: One-way interaction: you find and read information (your notes); it’s a personalized Google for indexing and organization
Note: This is an unjust comparison if what you want from a note-taking system is just knowledge management: storing notes. However, if what you want is more than that, and is also about helping you learn (which I believe should be), then SuperMemo trashes any note-taking system by orders of magnitude. Read on.
You’re reading a textbook for your class. You write down a condensed version in OneNote/Evernote. After finishing your notes you re-read them “frequently” before exam (next week or month).
Another case: you take notes for every book you read. You have a note collection for all the books you’ve read over the years. You review them frequently or “once in a while”.
“Review frequently” is unsustainable in the long-term. When your note collection grows, it’s impossible to maintain a re-reading review schedule. Most people are not aware that you need to review them. Even if they do, in most cases it’s “maybe two or three times” (in a year maybe?) There’s no review-schedule system.
