[skydhash]

I don’t mind distractions when learning via books (I wouldn’t be able to finish my degree otherwise), but the other advices still apply. Reading a chapter without doing the exercices is like listening to a lecture without taking notes. You may understand a few things (or everything), but you’ll find that doing practice, drawing diagrams, or summarizing it lead to a deeper understanding. More often than not, you have to dedicate a few days or weeks depending on how dense it is. You find yourself rereading a page from a previous chapter or consulting another book. You don’t have to read it end to end unless you view it as taking a course.

[berkes]

As mentioned, I have ADHD. Which means I cannot handle distractions. So I try to uses processes and tools to manage distractions as much as possible for me.

But I guess a neurotypical zoomer can code fine with a TV in the background, a podcast in one ear, insta and DMs ploinging into their notifications and slack nagging in the status bar. I cannot.

[walteweiss]

Do you keep some notes on the books you read? (I mean online notes here; but if you don’t keep them online, while maintaining the notes, the question is still valid. Maybe you have some system that works for you and you want to share.)

[berkes]

I use Joplin. And that has no way to share a part of my notes. And I'm really not ready to share my woes with my wife with the world. These are all mixed with my Kobo notes.

Also. Notes have always been a mess. I note a lot with pen and paper. Most even. I have piles of random paper. Pen drives with markdown. And large gaps.

If anything, adhd is terrible for consistency in this kind of stuff. Which is why I go full on plain text formats. Any binary, SQLite, cloud whatevs will rot within weeks after me loosing interst. Yet my diary.md and my bookkeeping.ledger, albeit gapped with years, still goes strong.