There’s at least one failure mode here. I’ve wanted to do what OP describes since 2013, but I got overwhelmed by perfectionism and the scope of the project “Ankify everything”, which also made me stop reading insightful blogs in the first place, as I felt guilty for not making SR cards out of what I’m reading.
I’m finally doing it. I started soft with simple mindmapping with zettelkasten (https://logseq.com/), integrated lots of my old notes into it, gradually found I could Ankify some insights, then decided to skip some grunt work by importing a deck of the LW wiki, which I’ve enjoyed.
(My only advice with importing someone else’s deck is to be aggressive. In Anki, the hotkey for suspending a card is @, use liberally.)
As for avoiding the failure mode… I don’t get hit by guilt anymore and I ascribe it to two things.
One, I gave myself some practice reading LW while letting go of the SR impulse, letting the insight be lost maybe forever. Turns out it was important to have this tolerance. Look at it from the policy level, what’s the result of being averse to reading? Lots of insights lost there. Anyways, in practice there are few insights you will never re-discover or re-generate. Trust your future self to be competent at finding the knowledge he/she needs!
Two, my zettelkasten. I have a To-Do for developing it, including links to every blog whose archives I intend to “mine” for insight. I also have lots of “stub pages” to be filled out. This gives me the confidence that I will get around to all things eventually.
There’s at least one failure mode here. I’ve wanted to do what OP describes since 2013, but I got overwhelmed by perfectionism and the scope of the project “Ankify everything”, which also made me stop reading insightful blogs in the first place, as I felt guilty for not making SR cards out of what I’m reading.
I’m finally doing it. I started soft with simple mindmapping with zettelkasten (https://logseq.com/), integrated lots of my old notes into it, gradually found I could Ankify some insights, then decided to skip some grunt work by importing a deck of the LW wiki, which I’ve enjoyed.
(My only advice with importing someone else’s deck is to be aggressive. In Anki, the hotkey for suspending a card is
@, use liberally.)As for avoiding the failure mode… I don’t get hit by guilt anymore and I ascribe it to two things.
One, I gave myself some practice reading LW while letting go of the SR impulse, letting the insight be lost maybe forever. Turns out it was important to have this tolerance. Look at it from the policy level, what’s the result of being averse to reading? Lots of insights lost there. Anyways, in practice there are few insights you will never re-discover or re-generate. Trust your future self to be competent at finding the knowledge he/she needs!
Two, my zettelkasten. I have a To-Do for developing it, including links to every blog whose archives I intend to “mine” for insight. I also have lots of “stub pages” to be filled out. This gives me the confidence that I will get around to all things eventually.