Kat Moody

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Playing With Words

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Inevitably, when you start to read a lot of books and articles, you start to forget some of the things you’ve read before.

Maybe you remember there was a great quote about something and you can’t remember it when you need to. Or maybe you know you wrote about this subject and can’t remember where you published it or what exactly you said.

If you were smart, you kept all your articles and other published words somewhere so you could maybe scan them and find what you were looking for. But what a time-suck.

I’ve written before about how my memory is a sieve — things I’ve read go in, and then they fall right back out again.

I have a flexible system in place to combat this problem. It’s based on a loose combination of three different but similar concepts:

I wrote before about how I use Readwise.io as an important cog in my ability to remember things I’ve read.

I love using Readwise all on its own, and I review my daily notes with an enthusiasm most people go to a movie. BUT, by itself, Readwise doesn’t let me connect the things I’ve read to other things I’ve read or even to novel thoughts of my own. And connecting it to my own writing? Forget about it.

Enter Obsidian.

I process my quotes in Readwise as each highlight comes up. But in Obsidian, I go a step further. Sometimes I’ll process just a highlight, but often I’ll process an entire article or book as well.