Yes – Piotr Wozniak (creator of SuperMemo and one of the pioneers of spaced learning) designed the system as a way to retain knowledge you've already ingested a

Yes – Piotr Wozniak (creator of SuperMemo and one of the pioneers of spaced learning) designed the system as a way to retain knowledge you've already ingested and understood. Rule 1 and 2 from https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules are these: > 1. Do not learn if you do not understand > 2. Learn before you memorize I use Anki to retain programming snippets and gotchas in the same way that Derek Sivers describes here: https://sivers.org/srs https://sivers.org/srs This article cited there is well worth reading too, as it's specific to programming: https://www.oxbridgenotes.com/articles/janki_method_refined https://www.oxbridgenotes.com/articles/janki_method_refined