Issues With My Current Readwise Setup

In the context of thinking about spaced repetition 202212271223 stuff and also how Zettelkasten-style note-taking is a sham 202212271346.

I like Readwise 202212271446, but I have some issues with it.

1. Why is the UX so bad? Why does it take 4-5 clicks to get from readwise.io to the dashboard, which is the place where I actually want to go?
   • Why are the cloze / question&answer type flashcards only available after you’ve ‘mastered’ a flashcard? Why can’t I access them before that?
2. I don’t currently use highlighting judiciously enough. Only some highlights are structured in a way where spaced repetition 202212271223 makes sense. For others, it’s a bunch of random crap (notes for myself, things to follow-up on, stuff that I thought was interesting, etc) that is very difficult for me to follow up on without context about why I highlighted it. (See Spaced Repetition Doesn’t Work Without Context 202212271503).
   • how can I fix this?
     1. Add all the context necessary to understand a given highlight - whether it’s through a note or just by highlighting more text.
     2. Look into how to edit Readwise notes to make them all have a specific point (to make them more like spaced repetition notes).
     3. Add tags to notes — like this This is a note! .tag-here The issue with this solution is that it doesn’t help with the previous notes I have saved.
     4. Think about what I want to use Readwise for in the first place. If I just want it to remind myself about what articles I’ve highlighted in the past so that I can think about them again, it does a perfectly reasonable job of that. If I want to use it for more specific stuff, I think I’m going to have to configure it more.
3. I don’t mind the drawbacks of my setup mentioned in The Disconnect Between Using Readwise As A Source Of Truth And Taking Notes On The Archive 202212271522 too much for articles, but where I really feel the loss of having such a disconnect is for books. However, for the books I’m currently reading, maybe I should take some notes on them using Readwise and export them once I’m done to The Archive 202207051453. This will help me look at them again, which is a form of Spaced Repetition 202212271223.

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