The Bottom Line
- Your asset is not what you read — it is what you can retrieve under pressure.
- Capture questions as they occur, answer later in batches, and store the source link with a 3-line summary.
- Revisit notes with spaced intervals (light touch) to convert “interesting” into “usable.”
What you store (and what you refuse to store)
- Store: the best source link, your 3-line note, and one “trap” to avoid.
- Refuse: long highlights, screenshots without context, AI prose without sources.
- Store: decisions and thresholds only if you can trace them to an official/primary source.
SourcePubMed: use as your default primary literature entry point
Open Link SourceDunlosky et al (2013): review of effective learning techniques (retrieval and spacing)
Open Link