Build a personal learning system with Logseq

Remembering everything is impossible, so we need systems to help us keep the useful bits of knowledge. Our best bet is to externalize a part of our thinking—to build a second brain. Without digital systems, you'll soon face memory overload—the overwhelm that comes from tracking processes. To learn effectively, you have to go through three stages: consume, collect, and create. For each phase, your learning system enables you to focus on the material instead of the process. In this hour-long session, we shared experiences and insights by using Logseq for learning.

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Atomic essay on building a personal learning infrastructure

Ramses Oudt 🪵 on Twitter: "Build a learning infrastructure if you want to be effective.Your mental bandwidth is limited, and your mind is like a sieve-only part of what passes through sticks.To stop forgetting, you need a second brain and feed it.🧵 Prefer tweets? See my atomic essay in the thread. pic.twitter.com/eMIaB2EWRK / Twitter"

Build a learning infrastructure if you want to be effective.Your mental bandwidth is limited, and your mind is like a sieve-only part of what passes through sticks.To stop forgetting, you need a second brain and feed it.🧵 Prefer tweets? See my atomic essay in the thread. pic.twitter.com/eMIaB2EWRK

https://twitter.com/rroudt/status/1346910995193597953?s=20&t=kYvQlGN9QEDeOZ5j6myynQ

Augmenting Long-Term Memory (essay by Michael Nielsen)

Augmenting Long-term Memory

One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his memory checked by an expert.

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (essay by Michael Nielsen and Andy Matuschak)

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

Part of the origin myth of modern computing is the story of a golden age in the 1960s and 1970s. In this story, visionary pioneers pursued a dream in which computers enabled powerful tools for thought, that is, tools to augment human intelligence E.g., Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962)..

https://numinous.productions/ttft/

Highlight, Question and Answer approach to note-taking

Take Better Notes When Reading Non-Fiction With HQ&A

In a nutshell: As you stumble across valuable information, save it (Highlight) along with a question for which you see the passage as the answer (Question). Then write a compressed version of that passage expressed in your own words (Answer). Highlight, Question, and Answer (HQ&A) Notes are the knife in our knife and fork note-taking toolkit.

https://words.jamoe.org/highlight-question-and-answer/

HQ&A example

Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.

https://discord.com/channels/725182569297215569/966364504273334283/966375198179885057

MarkDownload browser extension

MarkDownload - Markdown Web Clipper

This extension works like a web clipper, but it downloads articles in markdown format.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdi?hl=en-GB

Starting a Zettelkasten in Roam Research

Salon: Starting a Zettelkasten in Roam Research

In this open Salon, I showed how to get started creating your own Zettelkasten-based on the approach as taught in Roam Book Club. As a bonus I also showed how to turn notes into flashcards à la Anki.

https://thinkstack.club/salon-starting-a-zettelkasten-in-roam-research/

Example of a podcast note (from The importance of a Dialectic: using the best of opposites to win)

Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.

https://discord.com/channels/725182569297215569/966364504273334283/966379219649200149

Logseq Office Hours #2: Building processes with queries

Logseq Office Hours #2: Building processes with queries

Have you been using Logseq for a while but want to take your practice to the next level? Join our community manager Ramses for the second Logseq Office Hours...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Xdj6WG_C0&t=0s

Metalearning reading guides (Make It Stick, Ultralearning, How to Take Smart Notes)

Metalearning reading guides

Metalearning reading guides Make It Stick (Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, and Peter C Brown) Ultralearning (Scott H. Young) How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens) By Ramses Oudt LearningWorker.Club @rroudt Table of Contents Introduction and instructions Ultra...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1044rDfjwX3nn1PiuEaj6YSoAR6yWPL90b3Z1CEBwhbA/edit?usp=sharing

Anki spaced repetition system

Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards

Choose a platform from the left. Anki's source is available on GitHub. There are instructions for building in the docs/ folder. If you encounter problems with the build system please let us know, but please note the expectation is that you are able to dig into basic issues by yourself.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Logseq workflow for students

Is this the BEST Notetaking app for students? | Logseq Student Workflow

Welcome to my first video. This video is a brief into Logseq and how I use it daily as a student. Some of the contents of the video may be difficult to grasp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1EKzZZffA&t=0s