Tagged “spaced repetition”
RemNote vs Anki: notes with cards, or cards with everything exposed
RemNote and Anki can both schedule cards for years. The real choice is whether cards should live inside your notes or inside a dedicated review system.
11 Sept 20268 min read
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
Anki alternatives, sorted by what made you leave
People leave Anki for five different reasons, and the right alternative depends on which one was yours. The five reasons, the tool that fixes each, what you give up by leaving, and the case for not leaving at all.
11 Sept 20268 min read
The best spaced repetition apps in 2026, sorted by who writes the cards
Every spaced repetition app schedules reviews. They differ on who writes the cards, what happens when you miss a week, and whether you can leave. Eight tools compared on those three questions, with a verdict by the kind of learner you are.
11 Sept 202611 min read
The forgetting curve: what Ebbinghaus actually found, and what to do about it
The curve everyone quotes came from one man memorising nonsense syllables in the 1880s. What he measured, what the 2015 replication confirmed, the numbers that get attached to it and should not, and the one thing the shape tells you to do.
11 Sept 20269 min read
Spaced repetition: how it works, how to do it by hand, and where it breaks
The idea is a century old and the evidence is unusually solid. What the spacing effect is, how a review schedule turns it into a habit, how to run one with index cards, and the two ways it fails in practice.
11 Sept 202611 min read
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