Reading is not too bad an investment of time.   In a short period of time I get to absorb what took someone else years to accumulate, understand, distill, and refine.  There could be so much to learn from what I read.  If I just could remember everything I read. To increase my rate of recall I do talk myself into typing out the core concepts.  This should help.  Albeit only a bit. Because taking notes with a pen and paper, rather than a laptop, leads to higher quality learning, as writing is a better strategy to store and internalize ideas in the long haul.  Writing by hand strengthens the learning process, while typing can impair it. Boom:  Some Notes on Note Taking Great and plausible idea.  My only problem with that fact is, my handwriting is so poor that I can hardly decipher it myself.   So I will ......