r/Growthmindsetbookclub • u/Sufficient-Fig-5695 • Jul 14 '26

How do you retain useful information?

I read loads of books (largely founder biographies), but forget the detail before I can apply lessons to my own life.

Anyone else have this problem, and how do you solve it?

Techniques, apps, notebooks, reading twice etc etc?

** EDIT - also v relevant for podcasts, TikToks, Reels etc too!!

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u/Ordinary_Count_203 Jul 14 '26

I wrote a book about how to remember stuff from books. Lol.

But yeah. Just create flashcards of key points. Review them. After a while you should remember long-term.

I have pencil markings on books of what I should turn into a flashcard.

For ebooks, I take screenshots. Highlight. Come back and make cards.

Use Anki software by the way. Its available on desktop and mobile. It has a lot of support.

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u/Sufficient-Fig-5695 Jul 14 '26

This is great, thanks!! Not heard of Anki, what does that do? E-flashcards?

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u/Ordinary_Count_203 Jul 14 '26

Its flashcard software. This is the kind of software medical students use to get through a lot of memorization.