Want to remember every paper you read and be the most well-read person in the room?
Here is how you can do it:
π1. Read only two papers a day, slowly
Everyone tries to use AI to read faster. Science is doomed if we all do this, instead read slower! Savour the paper, especially foundational and review papers. I consider 2-4 full papers in one day a lot. Think of yourself as a forensic detective who can solve a crime from just tiny bits of evidence - academia is very similar, and your evidence is papers.
βοΈ2. Don't highlight β write to remember
The longer you take to write in your own words, the more you consolidate your understanding. When reading the first time summarize every paragraph, especially the introduction.
π3. Summarize the summaries
Once you have summarized a paper in your own words, summarize your summary. The advancement of every single paper is often just one tiny idea. (e.g. "Hotter climate leads to plants growing in higher elevation"). Once you get to a point where you have summarized the paper in 1-2 sentences you fully get it.
π€4. Decode authors' intentions
This is crucial to your understanding. Why did the authors write the paper? Answer this as concisely as you can.
This is how I summarize papers and intentions, notice also the heavy linking to other notes in the summary:
π 5. Track your sources
Most introduction and discussion sections will have a fair amount of findings from other papers put into context. Whenever you find a relevant idea, write it down and note the original source where it came from. Over time you will find recurring papers and identify what are the "foundational" papers and authors in your field.
π6. Build a reading wish list
Building a reading list of papers and write down why you want to read them. Never just download papers "for later". The act of downloading is a reward that you get when you commit to reading a paper. This is how this can look:
πΌοΈ 7. Visualize to Realize
The ultimate summary is visual if you can break down your research into a visual summary you will see the gaps immediately.
I can't emphasize enough how crucial a note-taking strategy is in this process. It expands your memory horizon.
You know some things (knowns), others you know that you don't know (unknowns). This is your memory horizon. Everything beyond you don't know that you don't know (unknown unknowns).
Things that are unknowns over time become unknown unknowables. In other words, you forget you ever knew them.
This is what note-taking stops. You may forget a note is there, but it is still linked and present, it can never become an unknown unknowable anymore. If you review your notes, you will find it and remember it.
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