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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(lifting a few from there onto Twitter):
* Something clever or beautiful a writer or artist did: why did it work? What might have made them think of it? What was its effect on you?
* Nostalgic visualization; e.g. front: “visualize your trip to Trapani with Sara”; back: photo(s)
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* Changes in intention: what made you realize that your old intention isn’t serving you well? Why wasn’t it serving you well? What’s your replacement? What difficult changes does this mean?
* Motor memory prompts; e.g. play a C# minor scale on your thigh
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What a gorgeous response from . I'm very interested in the "poetics" of spaced repetition—perhaps for another thread, once I understand that topic better.
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Experience as a spaced repetition. I’ll keep saying loving words in different ways and forms to nephew so he can internalize it as an inner voice. A repeated line of conversation acts like a reified, embodied reminder, until it becomes a part of his cognitive architecture
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A very interesting use case: repeatedly exposing yourself to thoughts that you flinch away from. twitter.com/BenGoldhaber/s
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Honestly, Twitter is my SRS of choice.
By curating who I follow I can fairly reliably surface trends that would otherwise fall outside of my worldview.
Lists are really good for this. Especially what is doing for specific topics like ocean explr.
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Another use case worth mentioning is the idea of hijacking the dopamine from social apps to implement a modern SRS.
This is one of my wish-list items:
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Any tips for making screen time warnings on iOS more challenging to unlock?
I’d love an app that required me to answer a short math question or spaced repetition prompt once I hit my time limit for the day.
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I did something maybe similar to this; passages that illustrated values I found/find important. I stopped after a year, because it hurt (to find where they met roughly). I can't say it was "bad" or "good" for me, only that it was painful to see contradictions I couldn't address.
