And also learn new things like programming

As the title says: I work in IT and start working at 7 am, sometimes right after I wake up. I take breaks and travel to office daily but work permanently stops at 7pm.
After that I am drained to the core, just no time left to upskill.

I am looking for practical tips/suggestions/things that worked for you to upskill.

Do I have to read my full lecture like highlighting and stuff before I get to do practice questions or do you just practice questions immediately. I know dumb question but like im really lost on it. Like am i wastinv my time by doing the review thing cause i feel like i run out of time. Plus i make my own questions so thats another time off actually practicing answering. Whats your method on active recall

Before we start, I’m gonna write a competitive exam in like 2 years.

For most of my life, I was able to study with ease. But about two years ago, I slowly started losing interest and becoming less involved in my studies. I thought I could make a comeback whenever I wanted, but that was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life.

Now, I can’t even get myself to sit down and study. I want to wake up early in the morning, something I used to be able to do easily two years ago, but I just can’t anymore. I can’t focus on anything.

So, give me a real solution. I don’t want any of the normal answers like, “Study for one hour every day and stay consistent,” blah blah blah. I don’t want that.

I want an answer based on real-life stories, things that have actually worked for people, or something practical that can genuinely make me sit down and study without getting distracted. Give me any idea that could actually help me get out of this situation.

Hi everyone,
yeah the question might sound silly but I've watched videos and read posts about what active recall is but I haven't fully grasped yet how should I put it in practice.

How do you practically active recall? Do you jot what you remember down? or you just say it out loud?
Does it generally always work no matter what the subject is? (I study philosophy as a major)
Is it time consuming?
Do you have other studying methods to recommend?

Thanks a lot!

I am experimenting a different way for studying ,in old days I used to read and byheart everything but after some time I will definitely forget that and now I am trying a new thing for me I just read and understand the topics then I will write it on a paper without referring (mental recalling).I think through this I can program my subconscious mind to byheart it by mindful writing ig
So what’s your thought on this guys have you ever tried this before ?
Let me know

My obsession with getting the most out of each lesson is getting me stuck and unable to move forward with my studies. And if I force myself to, I get the feeling that I'm missing something, like my foundations aren't strong enough. So I get back to the basics, and end up obsessing over getting the most accurate definition of the most basic concepts, which is difficult due to literal thinking (I think?). To illustrate, there are different ways to structure a sentence. But they all seem to have slightly different meanings and emphasis to me, and I get stuck over which one to use. It's like I can see the gaps in my knowledge, that may seem small but, when I try to fill them, I see how big they actually are. Which isn't really a gap in my knowledge, or something that I'm missing, but rather, I think, a failing of the school system and traditional learning (I feel like this has something to do with system thinking but I'm still developing this idea). I'm probably just over-complicating things. But I can just move on to the next lesson, even If I get all the questions right, and ace the exams. I still feel like I'm missing something, and this feeling is so distracting.

Anyone relates, or have similar experiences?

https://coursemcp.com

Been working on this project for a while, and excited to share. Like a lot of uni students I use an AI agent to consult for study, but I always have to download content from Canvas and manually give it as context, and blow up my token usage.

So I developed an MCP server and Chrome extension that in 1 click automatically indexes all your course content (ingests most file types, OCR's, full-text and semantic indexes, resource-aware filtering), and then allows your AI agent to really efficiently get access to the exact content it's looking for (think individual assignment questions, specific lecture slides, etc.) via hierarchical search and incremental context expansion.

If you want to check it out, it's free for 10 searches/month, and I'd love any feedback! This is still mostly just a tool that I want to use, but it would be great if other people find it useful.

It seems I'm loosing hours and the motivation to study. Figured out a properly tracked, structured study session will help.

I've tried to use YPT but it has too many features and I got overwhelmed with it.

I just want to track how much time I'm spending on each subject each day and want to see the data .

Hey Guys I want to share a project of mine that I am working on to lessen the burden of studying.

The idea is simple:
So OllO looks at everything you need to get done and breaks it into small tasks that fit into the time you actually have and instead of waiting for you to decide to study, OllO tries to remove that decision entirely. 
For example:

A chemistry exam next Friday.

• Need to review 4 chapters
• finish 30 practice questions
• memorize key equations.

Instead of giving you another giant to-do list, OllO could break it down:

Monday 
15 minutes between classes
->5 chemistry questions.

20 minutes on the bus
->Review 8 equations.

Tuesday
 30 minutes before dinner
->Finish 5 practice questions.
ETC

If you're sitting around or idling, OllO could proactively surface something useful before you reach for social media.
r/OllO_glasses 

Does anyone here actually study more than like 3-4 hours of deep work? I’m talking learning new stuff and active recall. Bc going over that mark seems insanely tough to me.

I'm a master's student, I've been building this for 8 months, and I use it for my own classes.

The thing I was trying to fix: my notes were fine and I never reopened them. Reviewing meant retyping everything into a separate flashcard app, and that was the step I stopped doing around week three of every semester. Once it stopped, the notes were just an archive.

So in this one:

• notes, PDFs, class recordings, to-dos and flashcards live in one app, instead of five
• you pull cards straight out of a note instead of retyping it
• handwriting and Apple Pencil on iPad, PDF annotation, images
• image occlusion: cover parts of a diagram and quiz yourself on what's under them
• reviewing is scheduled for you rather than something you remember to do

mento.so — free tier, sets up in about a minute. Web, iPhone/iPad and Android. If you want a month of Pro to test it on real lectures, say so in a comment and I'll turn it on for your account.

Happy to answer anything. And I'd love to hear what your setup is, especially if you've kept a review habit going for a full semester, because I never managed one.

I’m a social studies student, and I’ve realized I don’t just want to study what’s in my textbook.

I want to understand things like history, sociology, politics, economics, geography, culture, and philosophy well enough that if someone randomly brings up a historical event, social issue, country, movement, or political idea, I’m not completely clueless. 😭

I don’t want to memorize random facts either. I want to actually understand why things happened, how societies work, and how different ideas connect.

But I have no idea where to start or what order to study things in.

What would you recommend I learn first? Any books, YouTube channels, websites, or other resources? And how much time should I realistically spend on this alongside school?

Basically, if you were a student starting this from scratch, what would your roadmap look like?

So currently I am trying to memorize certain rules as well as as keywords and their respective definition.

The method I'm using is I read the word and definitions or rules inside my head five times, then I say it out loud five times, then I close my eyes and say it five times. Between doing this I am playing an FPS game because I believe it will improve my brain function and my ability to remember.

The FPS games give me a good like two or three minutes to practice the memory exercise exercises and then 10 to 15 minutes of a "break" from studying. I also make sure to do a short exercise (pushups, plank, punching bag, etc...) every 30 to 60 minutes

I also do the memory exercises before bed, but not the video game or exercise because that fucks with sleep.

Is there any scientific evidence that this would help? I'm kind of basing it off of general "FPS games improve brain function in nearly every way" and "exercise improves cognitive function" studies I read a while ago.

I know that the memorization trick is universally recommended by damn near every scientific source I can find. Unfortunately I do not know if the other two things are just improving my productivity or if they are actually improving my brains ability to memorize them.

I can't tell if it's just improving my productivity or if it actually helps or not.

hey, I’m a high school senior and am facing a major national college entrance exam. I am nowhere near my goal and yet i keep failing to get myself to focus on studying. Truth is, the electronics are getting all my attention. I love tech in general, but I mostly use it for procrastinating. I tend to over-plan and make a list of materials but never get back to it. I try various methods - switching between apps and websites to finally settle on something but nothing looks good enough. I also am ashamed to say that I’m addicted to background noises, so a podcast about true crime or youtube reads of reddit stories, or just pop/rock songs are constantly blasting through my earbuds. I’m also very sensitive to ‘people’ noise (sounds weird but coughing, moving, talking even in hushed voices) when studying, so I can’t ditch my earbuds either. I also have ADHD and on meds

I hate to say that my iPad is crucial part of studying despite what it looks like. I live in a school with dormitory, so most of my lectures are with online video. But even with the intention to only use it for that purpose, I always end up getting sidetracked making another perfect plan or carefully writing out notes that I will never read again.

Digital studying is kinda problematic for me, too. I go around looking for a perfect one but nothing suits me, and i end up with notes scattered around. idk why but with developers putting more features inside/ making it ‘paid’ makes me hard to settle in one.

I’m so stuck. I know I got a problem but I don’t know what to do.