I have the same problem , i always take days to look for perfect learning path and most of the time end up not using or learning anything , this problem is destroying my life (i am 20 years EECS student ) , any help or solution , and i will be thankful for you until the day i die .
Another "me too". I spend way too much time figuring out the optimal material and order for approaching new subjects. I'm trying to work on it, but it's tough. At the heart of it, I think, is a fear of wasting time, which is funny considering how much time I've wasted on it.
Having lived some time before the Web was around, and some time more before it was quite the resource that it is now, I think this is a problem that is, if not caused by the Web, at least severely aggravated by it. For as useful as it is, I can't shake the feeling that if I could entirely abandon the modern information world for a set of traditional media and the Real World for a few years I'd come out on the other side both better educated and far happier that I will if I don't, but it's so hard to live anything like a normal life without the 'net, and there aren't many (any?) jobs as all-around nice as working as a programmer that let you disconnect like that.
Probably I'd have made a good monk.
Also, to add to the problems-to-solve list: I'd like an Anki-alike that lets me type and/or freely draw on both sides of the card when I'm creating one on a device with a touch screen. I realized after ~3 hours of collecting images for some flash cards I didn't end up creating that if I could have just drawn my cards on a tablet and saved them directly—no stupid, slow shuffling between a graphics editor and the flash card app—I'd have already been done, and, not finding such a program, I abandoned my project. At that point I (obviously) considered using real notecards but I doubted I'd carry them around enough.
