[Updated on 17/1/25] Lamp is a learning planner and tracker. It lets you plan, strategize, monitor, and evaluate your learning. We will walk through how a typical learner can use the app. Create A Project For A Course or A Book A project is a course you are taking, a book you are reading, or […]
All sorts of random thoughts and worries can occupy your attention when you want to get things done. An easy and effective way to avoid that is to write them down. You can write it on a paper or in a minimal note app. No need for complicated systems or perfect writing—the simpler, the better.
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The first challenge in learning is sometimes just to make yourself start doing it. All discussions of learning strategies are pointless if you are not learning. But procratisnation is a prevalent problem. It feels awful and still it traps many of us from time to time. If this is a problem that bothers you, you
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Self-Testing Under many scenarios, testing yourself on what you’ve learned enhances your memory of information more so than studying. This is true even if you don’t get everything right and do nothing afterwards. Knowing this, it seems like a good idea to replace part of your studying time with self-testing. But self-testing is not always
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Reread Or Recall? Sometimes our perception of learning goes opposite against our actual learning. Suppose that you are given a passage to read, and the next day you are allowed to do only one of the following: And then you will take a test a week after on the content, which one will you choose?
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You can either take notes while you are learning something, or afterwards. That means you can write notes in the class/as you are reading, or you can do it afterwards. The approapriate timing varies with the difficulty of the content. It can be a bad idea to take notes when a class is hard, which
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Flashcards are an often-mentioned tool for memorizing information. On one side is a prompt, usually in the form of images or questions. When you study with flashcards, you look at the prompt and try to recall the answer, which is on the another side of the card. So if you are studying organ names, you
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Speedreading comes with the compelling promise that you can read [insert some number from 5 to 100] times faster with good comprehension. But this doesn’t make any sense—understanding requires cognitive processing that takes time and effort. This sets an upper bound of your learning speed and there is no way to get around it. Think
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Imagine putting all approaches to learning on a spectrum. One end is labelled ‘rote’, and the other is labelled ‘meaningful’. Your learning falls somewhere on this spectrum. On the rote end, the emphasis is on memorization. Your primary goal is to remember information. This is usually done by some forms of repetition, like reading something
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The site has been updated this week. Posts in the past have been removed, but new posts—with better style and content—will be made. Aside from this, we have also started developing a web app, which helps learners integrate effective strategies into their learning processes. Please look forward to the upcoming posts and updates about the
