[joelegner]

I tend to agree that I rarely, if ever, read any of the copious notes I’ve taken. However, I find the iOS notes app is a good middle step in a workflow from reading to remembering.

What I like to do is read a chapter of a book, scientific article, or blog post, let’s say, and then write a summary in a note. I can distill the message down and integrate it with existing knowledge by noting similarities.

After that step, I create Anki cards from the notes to remember the key points. By this approach I go from reading material to permanent memory.

[jxramos]

I've been leveraging the iOS notes app too for a similar personal distillation of subjects with my personal summarization of the article etc. It's also a breadcrumbs of things I found interesting on the internet which are growing every more difficult to independently search on the internet again after so much time passes. I've been leveraging more and more the native tags functionality which makes grouping notes streamlined. Would you happen to know anything quantitative on this open question? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/439062/whats-the-m...

[joelegner]

The breadcrumbs part is a good point. I can look at an old note and see what wacky rabbit hole I had visited that day.

If you’re asking me about the stack exchange question, I don’t use tags for my notes.