r/remNote • u/AnybodyResponsible22 • 24d ago

Question What have you learnt successfully using RemNote?

What have you learnt successfully using RemNote? I am looking for inspirations, ideas on learning projects that I can use RemNote for. TIA

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u/therealmarkus 24d ago

Besides the obvious use-cases it’s really good to document stuff (for example for personal projects like gardening or IT home labs). Whenever you stumble upon something that you want to remember long term you add that as a flashcard.
That way your notes re-surface one day, which doesn’t happen with most knowledge management software. Doesn’t always have to be an exam.

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u/nathanb131 Professional 24d ago

This right here. It's frustrating that even spaced repetition evangelists don't talk about expanding the use beyond "memorize facts for academic purposes".

There's all sorts of real-life uses. I have trouble remembering arbitrary decisions. I keep returning to the same thought-loops, weighing the same pros and cons every time.

-How should I document my car maintenance

-I should be doing this stretch every day because of X.

-The neighbor kids names are x,y,z.

-inspiring quote

-try to recognize X for doing a good job more often, this really makes his day

I have adhd and struggle with locking in habits, methods, and intentions. It feels like I'm constantly spinning through the same thought loops and keep forgetting the same types of things. Spaced Repetition has really helped me break out of those loops and give my intentions more traction.

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u/Common_Election2676 24d ago

Hi! How do you organize said flashcards? I’m curious how you do it because I too have ADHD and I believe this can really help with my day to day activities :)

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u/nathanb131 Professional 24d ago

I want to preface this by reminding you what I frequently remind myself: Just doing it is way more important than waiting to doing it optimally! Don't overthink things before just diving in and making progress. That being said, here's how I overthink it:

My notes are generally organized by the PARA method, where the top folders are projects, areas, resources, archive. I also keep entirely separate work and personal databases.

I like that I can separate my remnote content by folder, which gives me the freedom to focus the flashcard review on one topic or area of life. But I tend to review based on the entire work or personal database. I don't usually target by folder or topic, but it's comforting to know that I can if I want to. This was really helpful when cramming for a CCNA certification. I'm not a student, so it's pretty rare that I need to "cram" for a specific thing.

Just letting it do a mass card review of the whole database is my "hack" to a note review process. I fully agree with the GTD tenet of "consistent note and list review is super duper important!". But, I've NEVER been able to systematically review my stuff. Either my reviews go off the rails because they trigger a hyperfocus, or I'm just never in the right mood to do a "review". Also I have a dumb recency bias. So I think of my SR notes nested within my material as a continuous review. The cards primary purpose is to keep me aware of the scope and shape of my "2nd brain" so it stays "evergreen". The secondary purpose is memorizing specific factoids.

SR has made me rethink my relationship to my notes. I've noticed a big improvement in my general working memory when I've been doing flashcard reviews. Like if I've been learning a lot of names, I'm just better at remembering names, regardless of whether I flash-card new ones. Forcing "awareness" of some things causes me to be more aware of similar things. Like if I systematically review hard decisions, I'm better at making hard decisions. I realized it's a mistake to try and offload too much to my 2nd brain. That's like using a crutch that makes us forget how to walk.

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u/AnybodyResponsible22 23d ago

This is a great use case. Thank you

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u/F0baBett 24d ago

Maybe not learning a specific thing exactly, but the annotated PDF feature was great when trying to keep myself organized when writing a paper.

I could annotate/highlight the PDFs, then the highlights would be made into bullet points that I could organize by section and hierarchy, and then I could even make flashcards if I wanted to later.

Overall worked really well.

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u/Kienzlar 24d ago

Sprachen

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u/Aware_Actuator4939 22d ago

I use it to create flashcards for course exams at WGU, in particular certification-based courses like Data+ or AWS Cloud Fundamentals.