A Guide to Incremental Reading for Students and Continuous Learners What is Incremental Reading? Interested in structuring your reading in an efficient way? Then, incremental reading is for you. In a few words, incremental reading is the technique of reading articles in small portions. It’s…

How I Successfully Coped With the Pandemic: A Student’s Perspective Hi! My name is Sweta and I’m a sophomore at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business (aka Zoom University) studying Economic Consulting, Public Policy Analysis, and Sustainable Business. Isn’t that a mouthful? With the abrupt…

The Anonymous Story Of A NYC Resident At The Frontlines Of The COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all of our lives. NYC residents have been particularly hard stricken. As of April 10, the total number of confirmed cases is over 100,000, with almost seven thousand…

How An Astronaut's Experience Can Enable Us To Study Better From Home Most of us are going into week 2 of studying and working remotely. Obviously, we humans are not made to stay in a confined space for a long time. That’s why it’s even more important to be deliberate about how we go about our daily…

17 tips for crushing it with Anki while studying remotely Over the last few years, Anki has become a staple for us when learning with flashcards. Usually, we annotate our readings in Polar, then auto-convert those annotations into flashcards. The biggest reason I love using Anki is that it…

Polar 1.100.12 is now available on the web for all desktop users and will be rolling out over the next week. Tags for Annotations The main feature of this release is tags for annotations. This has been frequently requested by users and we finally were able to devote the time to making sure it…

Top 5 Flashcard Apps for 2020 Flashcards have a reputation for being one of the most popular ways of studying and retaining information. They’re also a time-tested tool. Their history dates back to the 19th century when English educator Favell Lee Mortimer used a set of phonics flashcards. Here's a…

Must-have Anki Add-ons for Medical Students in 2020 We all know med school is tough and the amount of information required to memorize is tremendous. So obviously the question begs why not make it easy on yourself and use some powerful tools? Anki is an open source flashcard software. If you’re here…

Polar 1.90.18 is now available for all desktop users and will be rolling out over the next week. Stability A ton of work has gone into stability to continue improving reliability for users. Filtering Annotations in Sidebar You can now filter annotations in the sidebar to search by text. Auto…

Decentralized social media using federated and peer-to-peer protocols The following overview is loosely based on a presentation by Jay Graber at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on Jan 21, 2020 Given the impact social media has had on our lives in the last few years - from less privacy to…