I don't get it.
Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
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Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#92It would've been nice to have the whole page to be in the Sans Forgetica font to see it in action.
I tried copy-pasting the whole website into the "Type something you want to remember" box near the bottom. Unfortunately, it's a and the original font styling got copied inside too. :|
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#93Does someone have this as a LaTeX font package?
Modern LaTeX can use TTF and OTF natively.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#94Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about litteræ pinguis serpentis ?
Been a long time since my Latin days and there's so much nominative/genitive overlap in those words I can't figure it out. "Writings of a fat snake" or something, I don't know. Help? :-)
It's "snake oil font". littera is a letter, and I hope that the plural form means "font" or "script". But litteræ definitely means "science" as well, so that's OK.
Tufts University has Lewis & Short online: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?redirect=tru...
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#96Not to be the usual skeptic, but "scientifically designed" doesn't really-really mean (at least to me) "designed by scientists" (which this thingy is). I mean, nice and all, but what about some actual tests/reports of it actually being noticeably better at remembering what you have read? The concept is very nice and interesting, but besides it: >The science of Sans Forgetica >Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read…
After reading your comment and learning the immature research backing this article, I wonder why this is trending at number one post.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#97I'm inclined to think someone behind this was having a lot of fun, and it looks nice. If it turns out not to be a joke/hoax/psychology/social experiment, I will be sure to remember - I made a note to check back later, using this special font that aids memory.
I can think of a practical use case for Forgetica Light, a font with the opposite design of Sans Forgetica:
Instead of simply deleting messages after a short time, Snapchat should render them in Forgetica Light, so you can't even remember them!
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#98There was excitement when the first study showed hard-to-read fonts improved test performance in 2007[1]. Since then, there have been enough attempted replications for a 2015 review to conclude that there's no effect[2].
[1] Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning: http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2007-16657-003
[2] Disfluent fonts don’t help people solve math problems: http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-13746-007
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#99Not to be the usual skeptic, but "scientifically designed" doesn't really-really mean (at least to me) "designed by scientists" (which this thingy is). I mean, nice and all, but what about some actual tests/reports of it actually being noticeably better at remembering what you have read? The concept is very nice and interesting, but besides it: >The science of Sans Forgetica >Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read…
It seems plausible, studies have shown that students who handwrite notes retain more information than students that type notes. The reason for this is because handwriting is slower than typing, so your mind spends more time thinking about what you're writing, vs just being a stenographer that writes everything the professor says, giving no thought to whether it's important or not. I can't speak to the validity of San…
Sure it seems plausible, but from "plausible" to "scientifically" there is IMHO a huge leap.
It may make sense, and personally I hope/wish that it actually works as intended, but that's far from being OK with the font to be tagged as it is.
Even the paper mentioned in the article you linked to that should be this one (the original link in the article is to SAGE journals and I cannot access it):
https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/Mu...
seems like proposing a theory that makes a lot of sense more than anything else.
Re: Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes
#100Ahem, my knowledge of cognitive psychology (and psychology in general) are certainly not relevant but I pretend to be a decent reader... Sorry, your font is terrible to read. I spent more time in deciphering it than in understand the written concept.
BTW personally I always found FAR MORE effective to take notes with pen and paper and after transfer them on personal desktop, in org_mode in my case so without any fancy distracting typography. The same for reading: I learn far more reading a printed docs than from an on-screen one. I test many times and techniques from high school to university to work training/conference etc. ALL "PC made from the start" was a fail, including photos and voice recording. Of course I'm not a statistical valid sample but I pretend to be not much different than any other human around.