Towards better memory
An interesting, quirky, though-provoking — memorable article in Wired about Memory:
“[snip…]SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.” (from Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?)
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July 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 am
SuperMemo is great, but the user interface is terrible and installing desktop software is a pain.
An alternative product is http://spicyelephant.com that are using the algorithm under the hood and provide a friendly web based user interface.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Craig,
I tried your site but couldn’t get it to offer any advice on timing for retraining; it just lets me to flipcard quizzes. Where is the spacing functionality?
Also, there seems to a bug… on every new card pair the answer flashes on the right hand card before it says “click to turn over”, which pretty much makes it useless as as quiz tool. This is with Firefox 3; I’m assuming it’s a JavaScript issue and probably browser specific.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Spacing functionality is fully functional, although the UI has under gone some significant changes in the last couple of weeks.
You can view the training schedule to get an idea of when cards are scheduled for relearning.
We have now solved the “click to turn over” bug.
Thanks for the feedback Jered.