Reading and listening to coaching related content is one of my favourite things to do in my spare time. Whether that be research papers, podcasts, books, articles, blogs etc. These are great ways to improve your coaching knowledge, but how can you get the most out of them?
The first thing that you need to do is embrace modern technology. Up until recently I needed to have the physical copy of the book and make written notes on what I was reading. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great way to learn. However, we can now create notes that are both more efficient to make and to revise
In this blog I go through how I personally maximise the time
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The Readwise application has been a game changer for me. This is a paid service ($8 month) but well worth the investment on the time it will save you. You are able to import your ebook, articles and podcast highlights into Readwise. You can organise your highlights in a number of different ways. One of the best features of Readwise is the daily review. The daily review can be sent as an email but I personally prefer using the app. Everyday you go through a selection of highlights that you have imported. You are able to control features like what highlights will come up more and how many you review each day
There are a number of different ways of importing highlights into readwise but this is how I do it.
Kindle is the way that I transfer my ‘book’ highlights into Readwise. I have to say I’m really enjoying using it so far and it’s very practical. The ability to export the highlights from ‘Kindle’ to ‘Readwise’ allows you to take notes and review the material much more efficiently.
Instapaper is my application of choice for exporting highlights from online articles and research papers(doesn’t always work well but creative ways around this). This is also a paid service (30$ per year), but it’s worthwhile from a time saving and practicality point of view. Instaper allows you to collect the article for reading now or later which is a very useful feature. You can link your readwise and Instapaper accounts. When you make highlights on these articles they will automatically export to readwise.
Snipd is now my podcast player of choice. This is a free service (somehow) and allows you to take notes and highlights from podcasts, even while driving. They have transcripts which are broken down into chapters for the popular podcasts shows and you can request this for podcasts that haven’t been done already. You are able to save ‘snips from the episode which then save as highlights. You are able to do this by pressing the ‘back’ button on headphones or car steering wheel. You are able to adjust length of snip you create. You can then import these highlights into ‘Readwise’. The only issue is that if the sound quality isn’t good the transcript can be inaccurate. But all in all it’s a very good application.
Stay tuned for part 2 next week :)
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