Some people collect stamps; I’ve been collecting unusual applications of spaced repetition systems.
I realized today that I haven’t yet solicited the power of Twitter here! What weird use cases have you found?
My running list:
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Yes!! In a zettel-fail, I forgot to link this one from that list: notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetit
I find that generating really concrete prompts like the one you mention is an important next step after the ones I describe there—will add!
Oooh I love this. Couples really well with implementation intentions, as one of their main strengths is forming a cue-response association plan for action, and spaced repetition could be a way to install it, as you say.
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has written about instilling habits/trigger-action plans/thought patterns with SRS (such as “If a task should take less than 3 minutes to complete I will just do it instead of postponing it”).
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