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Great. I just used your instructions to add your instructions to the "How does SuperMemo work" topic/folder

Thanks, I'll check it out. Polar bookshelf also looks interesting: https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf

That sounds like a potential solution! But then again I like the idea of SuperMemo handling the schedule and letting me skip from article to article*. How do you replicate this with Cintanotes? Does it even remember where you left off or does this approach assume you'd read an entire pdf at...

I feel like the difference is only of degree, or depth. In a book, you would tend to do a single round of highlighting. With IR, you can highlight the highlights and their highlights until you atomize the info.

Yes, essentially I imagine myself doing almost all my reading in SuperMemo (apart from fiction for example). Is this common among seasoned users? My thinking is this: if I can read in a way that improves my retention of the material (IR) -- then why would I ever make the choice of reading in a...

(note: not sure if this is watercooler material or for one of the SM sections) I ran into this interesting quote from polymath author Nassim Taleb* that seems to me to advocate for an approach to reading that is very similar to Incremental Reading in SuperMemo. "The trick is to be bored with a...

Ordinarily, it is possible to suspend cards in Anki. Suspended cards don't show up for reviews so it's like dismissing them in SM. Unfortunately, the third party incremental reading plugin ignores that and still shows cards you suspended. So I am forced to delete them (otherwise the broken...

I am considering. What got me interested again is that I got a taste of the incremental reading workflow through the Anki plugin. I edited the plugin to try and make it feel more like Supermemo (for example to carry pictures from a parent note to an extract, along with several reference fields...