6 Steps to improve how much you remember after reading or consuming books, articles, and podcasts on programming
Stop forgetting interesting articles, books, or podcasts from your favorite authors.
As a software developer and someone interested in self-improvement on a wide scale of different areas, I read many books & articles daily. For an extended period, I had trouble remembering everything I read or had difficulty finding back what I found just a day ago.
There is such information overload these days from exciting tweets, articles on medium, interesting Instagram stories, podcasts the resonate with me. I experimented with notebooks, Evernote, bookmarks, or todo apps that kept reading lists. But this wasn’t enough.
When you read, it’s normal to forget significant parts of a book or article. This is an entirely normal phenomenon called the Forgetting Curve.
Hermann Ebbinghaus was a german psychologist that ran a limited study and published his hypothesis in 1885. He studied the memorization of nonsense syllables by repeatedly testing himself after various periods and…
