Zettelkasten and Evergreen MOC remembering spaced_repetition
Hermann Ebbinghaus‘ forgetting curve shows that we all forget everything incredibly fast. Within 20 minutes we forget 40% of something we try to remember, in studies students remembered less then 1% of the material because of bad study techniques. With spaced repetition these numbers went up to remembering over 80%.
This can be build into a ZK system by using spaced repetition spaced repetition enables a workflow of incrementally improving notes.
Currently testing Anki tags and questions to notes. Adding prompts to notes helps thinking and actively engaging with the contents of a note:
- what are the key points?
- what question wil make me remember this?
Closely related to For notes to be useful, actively engage with them
Literature notes
A Practical Guide To Memorising Anything With Spaced Repetition author:: Jamie Miles source:: A Practical Guide To Memorising Anything With Spaced Repetition tags:: memory spaced_repetition
- It has been known for more then a 100 years how fast we forget things, still learning techniques still do not take that into consideration
- 20 minutes time frame to gather the necessary information, that is less then a pomodoro.
- actively recalling is crucial: questions and teaching → shows our gaps
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Fleeting notes
- Memories fade fast. Twenty-minutes after being told something, 40% of that information will be forgotten. After that, things go exponentially downhill. This decay in memory is known as the forgetting curve. This curve was born out of the experiments conducted by Hermann Ebbinghaus and has been successfully recreated by modern scientists to affirms it validity. As such, it’s very much become the darling of how psychologists think about memory.
- 40% forgotten in 20 minutes, that is a short timeframe
- The learning curve shows that every time we recall a memory, we strengthen it. In practice, the memory’s health is reset, and the rate of decay is reduced, as shown by the forgetting curve (shown in red) becoming flatter. As there are fewer gaps we need to fill in, each successive attempt to recall what we’ve learned gets shorter.
- recalling is strengthening a memory
- However, the most crucial component is realising what you’ve forgotten. That’s why answering questions, completing practice papers, and teaching endure as the most efficient methods for learning. Without mercy, these active recall techniques expose what we don’t know, and in so doing allow us to retrieve the missing puzzle pieces and add them back to the picture.
- actively engaging (questions & teaching) with the information, and noticing what we have forgotten is crucial
- Once you’ve scoped your topic, you can then divide it into sub-topics, and then break these sub-topics into discrete practice questions that you can use to complete recall exercises with.
- breaking up a topic in sizable parts
- A passive recall activity would be reading over your notes, while an active recall activity would be teaching or answering questions, whether they be of your own invention or practice exam questions. The most effective form of active recall is the feynman technique drawing
- How Long Should a Recall Session Last? 30 minutes.
- Maybe one pomodoro? for a recall session
- It’s long enough for you to zone into the work, but not too long for it to become tiresome. These drills can be in the form of flashcards, where there is a question on one side and the answer on the reverse.