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Repetition and working with them. I hope you're not under the impression that reading a paper once is going to help you remember it. I have to read a paper at least 3-4 times before I feel like I actually really understand it.
I remember reading somewhere that people are only able to retain 10-15% of the information they read in the first go or something.
Honestly, this makes me sad. I completely agree with you and experience this myself but it is disheartening.
I’m currently way too overworked to do this but I have had the idea of making a personal wiki. Read a paper those bazillion times I need until I understand it (some great papers are truly poorly written) and make succinct notes (definitions, math, code, conclusions, usage cases). Then use the wiki whenever I forget something.
I don’t know what platform / tool to use for the wiki because I don’t want to be forever required to pay for a subscription fee yet I want it accessible from multiple devices and have a nice search.
Don't be sad, it's just a part of how things are you just have to choose a method and stick to it.
I personally use Notion. I've created a database and added properties like date, venue, authors, organizations, etc.
For example, the other day I needed to recap what the BLIP paper was about so I just searched the paper in the database and took a look at the page. On that page I've highlighted different text with different colors depending on when I came back to read it.
Took me a while to get this working and into the habit of it though.
I’ve been in the industry for 5 years. I don’t know how many papers I have read but I know that I recall only few. I regret not writing things down earlier but I never have the time. Ugh, I just need to swallow this up and start to do this
Well I don't know your situation but I feel like the "never have time" excuse may not necessarily be true. Even creating a page in Notion and writing down one line is enough for me. I feel like what was holding me back before was the trap of perfectionism. I wouldn't want to write anything unless I could make it into some conference-poster-quality page.
It probably isn’t, perfectionism does sound more like it. Thanks!