SRS 101

Learn why it works and how to use spaced repetition systems.

Transcript

1. SRS 101 SPACED REPETITION FTW
2. photo by Tomas Aleksiejunas
3. NEURO PROSTHETICS!
4. SRS 101 WHY A GUI IS EASY TO USE? ▸ Passive recognition vs active recall ▸ Testing effect ▸ More effortful, more lasting ▸ Avoid the illusion of competence
5. HERMANN EBBINGHAUS
8. CRAMMING VS SPACING
9. PIOTR WOZNIAK AUTOMATED SPACED REPETITION WITH
11. LEARN FROM ME: THE 20 RULES ON HOW TO FORMULATE KNOWLEDGE
12. SRS 101 SUMMARY OF THE 20 RULES OF WOZNIAK ▸ Don’t memorize without understanding ▸ More simple cards are better than one complex one ▸ Exploit personal details, emotions and shocking examples ▸ Cloze deletion and image occlusion work like a charm ▸ Imaging and mnemonics are your friends ▸ Avoid sets and enumerations ▸ Use context cues ▸ All of this looks trivial… but you only will get it after using SRS for a while!
13. SRS 101 WHAT TO USE SRS FOR? ▸ Gwern’s 5 minute stimate ▸ Important things or enablers ▸ To pin concepts to your mind so ▸ You can think faster ▸ You can be more creative ▸ Don’t add whatever :(
14. SRS 101 PITFALLS & GOOD PRACTICES ▸ Not being honest with scoring ▸ Downloading decks ▸ Daily reviews ▸ ‘Why?’ cards ▸ Having cards classified in many decks ▸ Custom note types
15. SRS 101 ▸Open source SRS ▸Available in desktop, Android 
 and iPhone* ▸My workflow: add at the 
 desktop, review at the phone ANKI
16. SRS 101 ▸ Gwern's article on spaced repetition ▸ The 20 rules on how to formulate knowledge ▸ Wired interview of Piotr Wozniak ▸ The savings effect