Arjun Patel
Personal website and dumping ground for my technical notes.

Incremental Reading, an extremely enjoyable method of massive learning

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In Incremental Reading, all the material yet to be processed is added into a queue. Each element in the queue is examined in succession.

How long to study each element before moving on to the next one is left at the discretion of the user’s own heuristics. Typical triggers for making that decision include decreases in concentration or pleasure.

General flow of incremental reading (simplified)

Basically the technique optimises for jumping between lots of different material whenever you want to, rather than forcing yourself to focus on one particular document. The spacing effect prevents you from forgetting the stuff you were looking at, so you can always come back to a document later.