Incremental reading

Incremental reading is a learning technique that makes it possible to read thousands of articles at the same time without getting lost. Incremental reading begins with importing articles from electronic sources (e.g., the Internet). The student then extracts the most important fragments of individual articles for further review. Extracted fragments are then converted into questions and answers. These in turn enter systematic review and repetition that maximizes the long-term recall of processed texts. The review process is handled by the SuperMemo method.

The simplest explanation of incremental reading:

• INPUT: information from external sources (most often articles on the web)
• OUTPUT: well-remembered knowledge of details extracted from articles such as: Question: [...](name) was the first US President

Note

Incremental reading helps you convert knowledge from the web into well-structured knowledge in your head

More:

• Short video demonstration (5 minutes)
• Incremental reading Step by Step (3 min. introduction)
• Incremental reading with SuperMemo for Windows (comprehensive manual)
• Incremental Reading
• Incremental reading in pictures
• Priority queue
• Advantages of incremental reading
• How is incremental reading different from reading in your browser?
• Minimum definition of incremental reading
• Incremental reading is useless
• Incremental reading is an attention destroyer
• Does incremental reading take too much time?
• Download SuperMemo with incremental reading (versions 12-15 are free)

This glossary entry is used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987