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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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Post by adkadskhj »

jackkinsella wrote: post #5

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…

This is super interesting, appreciate the post!

I am toying with ideas for my own knowledge base, with integration into SRS for improved retention. I hadn't thought it would go much beyond fact retention, but my hope was to frame facts in such a way that larger pictures could be also retained, analyzed, etc.

It sounds like you've solidified some of the aspirations my idea .. area, so huge thanks for that! This is the first time i've seen mention of SRS going beyond simple facts, and i thought perhaps my idea was a pipe dream.

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

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Post by Kelamir »

canistel wrote: post #50

Discussion on spaced repetition quickly move on to Anki invariably, but I would like to highlight org-drill https://melpa.org/#/org-drill too. If you are an Emacs user, that is...

That looks interesting! Will definitely check it out. And for those who want to some Anki routine like adding cards via Emacs, see https://yiufung.net/post/anki-org/ (Power up Anki with Emacs).

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

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Post by Kelamir »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #44
knubie wrote: 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…

If you need a suggestion, Anki is for retaining what you have already learned, not learning, which is what you are supposed to do yourself. In other words, learn to learn. For example,

I heavily rely on mnemonics and I have a field for them, thus for the German word "vertrauen", which stands for "to trust", I have the following mnemonic: ”I trust Ver to heal my wounds”. Ver is a friend doctor of mine.

For Japanese it helps me to have also mnemonics for kanji sounds(ka - cat, ho - hole), then make stories based on them.

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

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Post by Kelamir »

rajlego wrote: post #13

I personally don't think spaced repetition by itself works very well for a few reasons: -card creation from stuff you read or watch is a huge pain -most people make cards that don't work in real life but don't change them because they assume the algo is good for learning when they're really using it for cramming I think incremental reading as implemented in supermemo is necessary for SRS to shine: incremental reading…

> card creation from stuff you read or watch is a huge pain

Yomichan, sub2srs, Migaku Dictionary's export definitions function, and many other tools simplify the process considerably.

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

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Post by Kelamir »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #18

What I hate about Anki is lack of a "never ever show this card to me again" button. I could make great use of it when I try to expand my vocabulary and it teaches me basic level words when I only want advanced+ level. This is what stops me from using it. I would also love to be able to set a custom repetition algorithm and to import cards from a directory of Markdown files.

> import cards from a directory of Markdown files

Anki supports CSV as an option for import. How about you convert the markdown files to CSV and import it? Recently I used it just for fun to import all the sentences from Faust and put them in a spreadsheet with LibreOffice Calc. I made it separate all the sentences by dots, and added another column with translations of the file thanks to DeepL. Converted it to CSV and it worked out, sentence and translation cards done.

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

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Post by edylemond »

rajlego wrote: post #13

I personally don't think spaced repetition by itself works very well for a few reasons: -card creation from stuff you read or watch is a huge pain -most people make cards that don't work in real life but don't change them because they assume the algo is good for learning when they're really using it for cramming I think incremental reading as implemented in supermemo is necessary for SRS to shine: incremental reading…

Card creation from stuff you read is one of the problems I'm trying to solve with Traverse.link. It has interlinked notes which can be turned into flashcards (adding active recall questions etc.). You can currently paste a link on a note to convert a web article into cards. We're also working on PDF and EPUB import

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

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Post by edylemond »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #18

What I hate about Anki is lack of a "never ever show this card to me again" button. I could make great use of it when I try to expand my vocabulary and it teaches me basic level words when I only want advanced+ level. This is what stops me from using it. I would also love to be able to set a custom repetition algorithm and to import cards from a directory of Markdown files.

This is exactly what you can do with Traverse.link (well you'd currently have to put your markdown files into a single JSON but I'm working on that). Your markdown notes then become flashcards, but the twist is every note has a "Remember" switch, which you can simply turn off to remove it from your spaced repetition schedule (without losing the note)

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

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Post by edylemond »

edylemond wrote: post #57
rajlego wrote: post #13

I personally don't think spaced repetition by itself works very well for a few reasons: -card creation from stuff you read or watch is a huge pain -most people make cards that don't work in real life but don't change them because they assume the algo is good for learning when they're really using it for cramming I think incremental reading as implemented in supermemo is necessary for SRS to shine: incremental reading…

Card creation from stuff you read is one of the problems I'm trying to solve with Traverse.link. It has interlinked notes which can be turned into flashcards (adding active recall questions etc.). You can currently paste a link on a note to convert a web article into cards. We're also working on PDF and EPUB import

For illustration, I've turned the linked article into flashcards here https://traverse.link/home/How%20To%20Memorize%20Faster%20Wi...

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

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Post by edylemond »

knubie wrote: 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 "…

Interesting to hear your approach to spaced repetition. I kind of went the other way with Traverse.link, where all 'cards' are interlinked markdown notes, but you have a switch to turn them into flashcards, ie add them to your spaced repetition schedule, and add active recall questions
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