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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Boy, this is really interesting! Thanks for sharing. I immediately start wondering about how to make such prompts “active.” Making yourself fill in the blanks for uncomfortable thoughts seems interesting—I notice I’ve done that in some congruent prompts about bad past decisions
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Yeah, I usually made cloze deletions out of the thoughts I was flinching away from.
I had intermediate cards for the quotations with just the first letter of each word, and found that worked extremely well for me.
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Ah, that technique for memorizing quotes is very interesting—I hadn’t come across that! Thank you for sharing.
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I wrote about it some, but sadly the images from this blog post are now missing: meaningandmagic.com/more-about-how
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Thank you for sharing! I hope you don’t mind my asking—what drives you to memorize prose like that??
I often wonder this when talking to people who use SRS memorize prose, and it looks like you don’t quite say here (other than that you wanted to try SRS).
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I like this question, and I’ll try to answer it!
I have always been pretty driven to reread my favorite passages from books, so I think the initial idea was that it would be nice to be able to revisit them in my head whenever I wanted. twitter.com/andy_matuschak…
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