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How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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We are developing an extension for Google Chrome that adds flashcards to browser startpage. This extension is based on a spaced repetition algorithm like Anki, but is much easier to use and understand. Here is the URL of extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/studylib-new-tab-s... Features - You can adjust the number of flashcards and the delay for each session. - You can choose different types of quest…

i was about to install it but then the permission required are:

- read and change all your data on the websites that you visit...

Just can't accept this level of risk.

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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post #14

We are developing an extension for Google Chrome that adds flashcards to browser startpage. This extension is based on a spaced repetition algorithm like Anki, but is much easier to use and understand. Here is the URL of extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/studylib-new-tab-s... Features - You can adjust the number of flashcards and the delay for each session. - You can choose different types of quest…

For people who already use anki there's a pretty nice chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anki-quick-adder/g...

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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post #32

It seems like there's been a lot of buzz around space repetition on hacker news lately. I've used SRS for learning Japanese with great success, and it would be hard for me to imagine making any progress without it. The one thing I was missing from most SRS apps was the ability to create note cards, not necessarily in the review schedule, and link them with my cards. There are some concepts like grammar that fit the "…

My experience with the same thing (learning Japanese) has been less than stellar. My rote memory has always been fairly poor, to the extent that I believe my relative academic success compared to my peers has come from being forced to attain a deeper understanding of topics just so I can derive test answers from base principles. I find going through the Anki decks to be seriously draining, especially when encountering the same words I've seen a dozen times and still can't readily recall what the hell they mean. However I've yet to discover a better method for me, since I am not enthusiastic about the idea of immersing myself in Japanese media for large amounts of my free time.

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I'll try it. I thought it's meant to do what it says - suspend a card temporarily.

What you want is the bury option, that one will no longer show the card in reviews (but it won't delete it)

Bury (Press = when reviewing) makes Anki not show you a card until the next day. Suspending (! to suspend all cards based on a note [if you have more than 1 cloze on a card, it will stop showing you all of them], @ just to suspend that one card) will make Anki never show you a card until you unsuspend it in the browser.

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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post #29

Is this really faster? Or just better for your long term memory. I have always wondered this about spaced repetition because it always feels much slower, but I keep seeing the word “faster” appear in articles that talk about it. Can anyone elaborate or link to some kind of a “speed test”?

In my experience it's faster for learning because you will recall more after a study period if you do the flash cards vs. rereading things a few times. Not an either or thing as well. I would put a lot of my lecture notes in the extra section of the flash cards, then if I want to get more context I can scroll through my cards sorted by created_at in the browser.

Ideal workflow is watching lecture online at 2x speed with Anki add card window open along side lecture window, pausing when it's time to make a card, write the text for the card and use Lightshot screenshot to quickly grab any images or text (or for image occlusion if you're using that, rebind screenshot capture to F4 so you don't need to use your mouse hand to press PrntScrn). Once you're done adding cards, go through them once that day. Or, if you're using a premade deck, watch the lecture, unsuspend cards relevant to the lecture, then go through them right away.

Not sure if you're using it for school or not, but I think the process will work the same either way. Works even better if you're using it along with a memory palace kind of thing like SketchyMicro or Pixorize. Those images will be burned in your brain and your recall will be insane.

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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Are there "prepackaged" cards for algorithms and other computer science topics?

Possibly, but that is missing the point. A card deck should aid you in building your own model rather than forcing dumb memorization. A good card is one that highlights what is important for you to memorize. While preparing the card, one should reflect what are these parts and how it fits into the larger whole so as to reflect this in the card. This helps go beyond mere memorization, and apply spaced repetition also…

The standard advice is to make sure you understand something before you make a card about it, but I've never seen an adequate description of what people mean by "understand" in this context. If a card fails (but follows the other rules), it must mean that you didn't properly understand in the first place, which isn't particularly actionable.

There are two distinct kinds of knowledge: tacit knowledge, the ability to perform some task, and rote knowledge, the ability to recall facts. In most domains, tacit knowledge more useful and harder to come by than rote knowledge. I have come to believe that "understanding" in the SRS context means learning how to do something, how to select an appropriate fire extinguisher in your example. Cards formulated according to those guidelines, then, encode related facts. The idea seems to be that recalling the facts will also reinforce the tacit memory.

An alternative is reinforcing the tacit knowledge directly, which requires a completely different approach: Each card should be a prompt to perform some task you care about, with all relevant context (and possibly extraneous context). This has a reasonable chance of succeeding if you use a premade deck, because all of the information is present. Unfortunately, this isn't how most shared decks are structured.

I've been using a variant on incremental reading for this: I took some books from Project Gutenberg and split the text up into cards and blanked out a word towards the each passage as a Cloze deletion. If I'm successfully following along with the argument that the author is making, then I can usually predict the missing word despite having never read the passage before; otherwise, I need to spend more time with the passage.

Other skills have separate decks: I have a piano deck, for instance, that contains sheet music on the front of the cards with a few bars marked for special attention (or blacked out). I review that one on a tablet while actually at the piano, playing the pieces. I use a photo editor to split up the scan into small parts and throw them all into Anki; it seems to work just fine without the pre-learning that's usually recommended.

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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post #32

It seems like there's been a lot of buzz around space repetition on hacker news lately. I've used SRS for learning Japanese with great success, and it would be hard for me to imagine making any progress without it. The one thing I was missing from most SRS apps was the ability to create note cards, not necessarily in the review schedule, and link them with my cards. There are some concepts like grammar that fit the "…

My experience with the same thing (learning Japanese) has been less than stellar. My rote memory has always been fairly poor, to the extent that I believe my relative academic success compared to my peers has come from being forced to attain a deeper understanding of topics just so I can derive test answers from base principles. I find going through the Anki decks to be seriously draining, especially when encounterin…

Immersing is incredibly frustrating / challenging when your comprehension is For me, I've found that having audio for every card is invaluable. Preferably audio from the source where you first encountered the word (for me that's mostly Youtube or Netflix). I'm working on a chrome extension to make this easier. Not only does it make it much easier to remember the word (by a pretty significant margin), but it has done wonders for my pronunciation as well.

I've written a little bit about my process here[0], but it's changed a little since I wrote that.

[0] https://mochi.cards/blog/using-spaced-repetition-to-learn-a-...

Re: How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique

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The value of SRS goes way beyond memorization. When applied seriously to a field like programming, it enables you to think about the program-design space in a more abstract manner and quickly call to mind and evaluate possibilities. Look up "chunking" as it relates to performance (e.g. in chess). I've written (and, more recently, made a video) about my 10 years of experience using SRS (via the free tool, Anki) to boo…

Have you by chance tried learning more analytical things like algorithms/mathematical ideas using SRS? I have been trying to automate my interview preparation process using SRS, but it is just mind-blowingly difficult to cardify these things; and cloze deletion doesn’t work well on large algorithms with many pieces.

Note: Please note that I am not advocating that people do it blindly, in fact I myself have been trying to use it as a way to retain once I’ve understood the algos.

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