Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

Language vocab seems a good use case. What other things are people here using spaced repition for?

Everything, I use it to memorize anything that doesn't stick the first time.

I just don't use an app. I will challenge myself to remember things or practice things manually.

It's probably sub optimal compared to structured spaced repetition, but it works well enough for me.

I used it whenever i studied anything, but with a 'recursive' twist.

Every time i did repetition, i've made a shorter note about the subject.

Then next repetition cycle, i'm reading the note, and making shorter note based on it. and so on.

once few cycles i'm re-reading the main starting note i made.

Mine has all sorts of shit in it. Mac keyboard shortcuts. Nautical terms. Cyrillic characters. Credit card verification codes. Phone numbers. Airport codes. Ionic component names. Names of my friends’ kids. A surprising amount of Z Specification. Anything I think it would be useful to remember.

Used it to memorize the 16 times table in decimal and hexadecimal.

There's an anki deck built from the jeopardy archive with 400,000 questions, so I'm studying trivia that way. I enjoy trivia.

Anything you wanna the retain the knowledge of. Basic usage is remebering shortcuts, names of people, apis, you name it. More advanced usage is you can break down complex concepts into atomic cards, which helps you remember how things work.

I'm using it to memorize all of the Paris métro stops and study for the French drivers license test. It was also a huge boon when I prepared for my citizenship interview.

I tried it for a while with my eldest child (then aged 3) to help her remember numbers, letters, etc. She didn't find it very fun past the first couple of times, so I figured I wasn't going to hoist it on her.

I think I've used that deck for a few weeks. Mind sharing the link so I may take a look at it? :)

A few uses for me:

• Memorizing Geoguessr metas. Made it to Master I rank this way.

• Memorizing new words. When I come across a word I don't know, I make a new flashcard for it.

• Memorizing things about people. My wife's favorite ice cream flavors, which spices each of my children dislikes, etc.

Anything I want to memorize but wouldn't be exposed to frequently enough in my day to day life. Flashcard review takes only a few minutes each day.

I used it all throughout my legal studies, for remembering legal terms, concepts, tests and any other thing I had to learn. It served me very nicely.

For language learning I find that using longer phrase fragments is better than single words.

How do you manage the data? Multiple decks or just one with everything? Do you directly use the app to add new phrases, or do you have some sort of automation / tooling on your phone or laptop?

The advice with gendered languages is to always learn the word alongside some context that includes its gender, e.g. "Der Tisch" (The masculine table) rather than merely "Tisch->Table".

I’ve been meaning to build a unix shell deck for a while. There are so many tools that are so powerful but I just don’t use them regularly enough to remember how they work when I need them.

I used it to get my Amateur Radio license, since a superset of the questions that can be in the test are public.

I downloaded an existing deck and modified it so that only the correct answer is shown instead of multiple choices.

I still can remember some of the content even though I deleted the deck short after receiving my license.

Used to use it in university (CS) for cramming before tests, mostly when there were lots of definitions to memorize. Also summarizing stuff and writing your own cards for it helps already with learning itself.

I would love to get my hands on this, please share if you can :)

I use it to practice Leetcode problems

HamStudy.org is exactly this, an SRS site/app that already has the questions and some explanations to go with it (the site is free, but they also have an app which is a couple bucks and almost the same but in my opinion slightly better). I used that a couple months ago I studied for the technician class license and got a perfect score when I took the test. Then I studied the general class license and got one wrong (34 out of 35 = 97%. You only need 26/35 = 74% to pass.) I could probably go for the third one next but maybe it would be more useful if I actually go get a radio and start using it first.

If the phrases are found by yourself in context from your own exposure to the language, it is even better.

I got introduced to this idea a few years ago from AJATT [1] and my personal experience is that it works very well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100406173634/http://www.alljap...

It's surprising how much easier to translate a foreign when it's given in a sentence. Also helps when there are multiple translations for a word depending on context.