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Description: Abstract Objectives: To prospectively identify all sources of deliberate personal learning from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. Study design: Case study / Cross-sectional Methods: From January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 I summarized new insights discovered / learned that I did not want to forget in Samsung Notes, along with their source. Insights were then entered into a flashcards program called Mnemosyne to be learned. To analyze insights and their sources flashcards were exported to LibreOffice or Google Sheets, cleaned and COUNTIF functions were used for raw counts and analyses. Results: I added 2932 new flashcards in 2021, for a total of n=21932 Mnemosyne flashcards on Dec 31, 2021. The 10 journals, databases or guideline producers which led to the most flashcards / insights were: Residential Treatment For Children & Youth (249 flashcards), RERO DOC (database) (82 flashcards), Papyrus (database) (61 flashcards), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (54 flashcards), Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (52 flashcards), Children and Youth Services Review (48 flashcards), BMC Trials (31 flashcards), NICE (guidelines) (18 flashcards), TREKK (emergency care guidelines) (14 flashcards) and Childhood (13 flashcards). All but two of the most productive sources of insights were identified when directly or indirectly looking for content related to my work in residential care or how to produce specific research on residential care. My 17 most “productive” unique sources of insights for the year 2021 include 3 scientific publications, 2 Master or Doctoral theses, 2 Bachelor theses, 4 ”grey literature” reports, 1 document on Swiss democracy, 1 NICE guideline on the management of PTSD, 3 books on residential care or the history of residential care in Switzerland and 1 book / guide on the transition to adulthood in canton Neuchâtel. Nine of seventeen (n=9/17, 52.94%) most productive unique sources of insights were specific to the Swiss context. The top 4 authors of the most insights are all Swiss researchers studying residential care and/or its history. Fifty-five (n=55) sources were deemed to be «outstanding». Twelve (n=12, 21,82%) outstanding sources came from the journal Residential Treatment For Children & Youth. Most outstanding sources (n=19, 34,54%) provided practical guidance and examples on how to do something, for instance how to support colleagues who have gone through traumas or how to teach anger management. Funding: No funding was received for this work. Registration and study protocol: See https://osf.io/y7n8f/ Data and materials: See https://osf.io/y7n8f/files Keywords: Adult learning, spaced learning, flashcards, case study, Mnemosyne, residential care