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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

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159 points swatson741 | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 14:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hereme888 ◴[01 Sep 25 17:06 UTC] No.45094504[source]▶
Too bad Piotr Wozniak (inventor of SuperMemo) is such a hermit and uncompromising of his lifestyle choices, that most of his life's work was eventually superseded by open-source solutions (Anki + FSRS).

I had tons of material in SuperMemo for years. Gave up and fully switched to Anki.

At least I'm thankful for his spaced-repetition algorithms. Also, his articles restored my love for learning and helped me confirm that school was an insane waste of time and resources.

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steve1977 ◴[01 Sep 25 19:11 UTC] No.45095654[source]▶
Last time I checked, Anki was nowhere near SuperMemo in regards to incremental reading features. Especially not with FSRS.

SuperMemo is actually almost the only reason I still keep a Windows VM.

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gobr ◴[01 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45097236[source]▶
Do you use Incremental Reading? I've tried many times but I don't see the point in it, probably never got it.

Anki way makes more sense.

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1. testaccount42 ◴[02 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45102911{3}[source]▶
Yeah I use it to read HN threads, articles from my RSS reader, Wikipedia pages, code that I want to review etc. Also, material that I need to make into flashcards eventually. The ability to schedule a chunk of text and then turn it into flashcards in the same application is really valuable to me. I typically open a thread and import it a few days later after most of the comments are done. Right now I have ~40-50 tabs I will import in a few days.

This video [1] is the second step of the process, the first would be making that extract from an article or larger chunk of text imported. Often, I read a little bit of the text and just delete the whole entry if it turns out not to be good/interesting/useful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oyvBmevn8