Tagged “active recall”

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  How to make flashcards from a PDF without keeping the bad ones

  Turning a PDF into cards is easy. Selecting a small set that stays faithful to the document is the part worth doing carefully.

  11 Sept 20267 min read
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  The best active recall apps, sorted by what you need to recall

  An active recall app should make you produce an answer before showing it. Here are the tools that do that well, sorted by the work you are trying to keep.

  11 Sept 20267 min read
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  Active recall: what it is, why it works, and how to do it without cheating

  Rereading feels like learning and mostly is not. Active recall is the alternative the evidence keeps pointing at: what it is, why the effort is the point, and the ways people quietly do it wrong.

  11 Sept 202611 min read
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  How to remember everything you read

  Most of what you read is gone within a week, and it is not because your memory is bad. A four-step method that holds, the step nearly everyone skips, and which parts are worth handing to software.

  11 Sept 202612 min read