r/IWantToLearn • • 20h ago

Academics IWTL how to stop writing useful notes and then never seeing them again

20 Upvotes

self teaching electronics for about 2 years. maybe 40 pages of notes, all tidy, all basically dead.

needed something about op amp offset last week and googled it from scratch. then found MY OWN NOTE on it twenty minutes later. felt personally attacked by a document.

im not looking for a huge second brain project. a note taking app for personal knowledge management that nudges old stuff back at me would be nice, or a paper habit that does the same. what survives for normal people who have jobs and evenings??


r/IWantToLearn • • 22h ago

Technology iwtl Stuck in middle of learning

4 Upvotes

Hey Hi everyone I'm Monish I'm already familiar with java and now started learning spring boot even though some topics are getting forgetting .i think i trapped in loop and in the toturial hell


r/IWantToLearn • • 12h ago

Social Skills IWTL to dance like an average for a xmas party

16 Upvotes

Xmas parting coming up, IWTL to dance!

I have a work Christmas party coming up at the beginning of December. I am going with my partner, it is the firdt time we have been to something like this together, and I'd love to get up and dance with her.

I have never danced; I am worried about it, but if I were to have a few skills under my belt I might feel better about getting up and dancing if front of loads of other people.

What is the fastest way I can get decent / socially adept at this sort of thing?

Neither of us drink alcohol, so drinking for courage isn't an option. It will be a disco btw, with all the obvious tunes - I'm not trying to learn how to break dance.

Thank you in advance.


r/IWantToLearn • • 6h ago

Personal Skills IWTL how to actually retain what I read instead of finishing a book and remembering nothing

8 Upvotes

i'll get through like 50 pages feeling engaged and then someone asks me what happened and my brain is just static. is this a focus thing, a reading speed thing, or am i just built different in the worst way possible? looking for actual strategies that don't involve rereading everything three times.


r/IWantToLearn • • 8h ago

Academics IWTL Reading comprehension with bad vocab?

2 Upvotes

Hi! I really want to improve my reading comprehension skills, but my vocab knowledge is absolutely dog water.

English isn’t my first language, and I have a hard time understanding scientific paragraphs when words I don’t know are all over the place.

I try using context clues, but my brain is often overloaded!

Any tips? :(


r/IWantToLearn • • 14h ago

Arts/Music/DIY IWTL how to fix everything*

2 Upvotes

*that can be fixed with a screwdriver, a small brush, and a can of compressed air. This includes bits that have more points than a Phillips Head but things that require a flathead screwdriver as a pry bar are borderline.


r/IWantToLearn • • 17h ago

Academics iwtl English grammar

7 Upvotes

I dropped out of school at 13, and didn't really pay attention in my classes anyway. So I have no idea the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Or where to place the comma, or when to use an apostrophe. All that stuff.

I want to know, mostly just cause I don't want to be ignorant when it comes to the language I speak😭

Could you give me resources that'll help? YouTube channels or websites?

The part I'm struggling with is finding intermediate lessons. I'm not a complete beginner, but that's what most of the channels I find focus on