Building a platform to help people with their recall of books
Hey guys, the problem I'm trying to solve is low recall of the key facts and concepts from non-fiction books. To do this, I'm working with a team of 2 (one is an ML expert and codes in Python), the other is a Professor of Cognitive Science (an expert in adult learning).
We are looking to raise finance, but I'd like to do some market research. Would love it if my fellow non-fiction readers could take 2 mins to fill out a few questions? It will likely be an app, but we may build the MVP as a email newsletter.
I do wonder if your not in an official education framework where you get scored for recalling most items, would you care?
I watch 5 minutes summaries of books and at 200% speed, if it's meaningful for me personally I'd recall or at least recall the reference.
With such easy access to so much information, I find I care less to recall details and more to recall references to further information...
The tradeoff of speed, content and what you would care to remember and to what details level is personal outside of school context, even in school I'd never care to remember names and dates event at the cost of points, cause I know it wouldn't be useful for me ever, due the story and it's message is.
The biggest tips for helping people learn better is to manage their phisical and mental states, like be aware where you actually are, know yourself better, and if it's for grades, learn about scoring better on tests not how to get more info in less time/space.
Like speed Reading concentrates on the reverse in a way, if you know how books are written, you would know how to bring them back to their gist. (While some techniques do concentrate on the phisical and mental parts of reading..)
Due for how long you want the info and to what level of detail is a big question as memory fades for good reasons, you want to anchor it deeper it's either with stronger emotion, a deeper more involved activity or just spending more time on it...
Hey man thanks for taking the time to review the concept. You have rightly identified the hypothesis we need to test - do people care enough about their generally low (<50%) level of recall? Forgetting is a key part of memory consolidation, and you can use tried and tested methods of active recall (low stakes quiz, flashcards) or spaced repetition algorithms to up those stats in a meaningful way. So far an interesting niche is emerging - avid readers who want to recall more so they can sound more impressive at dinners and events. I.e. go on a journey from "I read this book by erm i forget the author, but he was basically saying 7 habits , one of which is X" to "I read 7 habits by Steven Covey. I was fascinated by the 7 habits which are..."
Does the problem hurt for them enough that they are actively looking for a solution and willing to part with both money and time to improve on it? What would make it worth while for them in terms of expected results?
Is third motivation coming around friends? Co-workers? First impressions? Or dates?
I'd say all of the above could be incentives. Love that question about does the problem hurt enough for them? Great way of thinking! thank you.
here's the link .. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WsmvVWjNi2D1N3T8-eeg9wiw5_SafY1UB49ZKrr3yUY/edit