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Thank you for bringing up SuperMemo - I remember reading through Piotr's article on Genius [0] and thought it was a wonderful piece on the balance of creativity

Thank you for bringing up SuperMemo - I remember reading through Piotr's article on Genius [0] and thought it was a wonderful piece on the balance of creativity and memorization. I've looked through SuperMemo's features and while I completely subscribe to the idea of spaced repetition (I have used Anki for some periods) I was put off by the user interface; perhaps I should try it again. > There's a general issue that you find the thing you see soonest most shiny and thus a strong likelihood of overprioritizing new material but SuperMemo helps intersperse everything to prevent that. I really the idea of this approach to keep everything at its proper priority level. Thanks for linking the brain as well - I haven't come across it. I am vaguely familiar with Xandu as well but it warrants another deep dive for sure. 0 - https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/genius https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/geni...

rajlego 7y ago
I love that article, it changed a lot of my thinking regarding people's potential for success. Woz has a lot of other articles you might also find interesting here: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru. I've especially read through a lot of his articles on sleep and memory and found them invaluable. SuperMemo's interface was not designed with the beginner in mind. When I first started trying it even basic operations frustrated me to no end. But now that I use it as a high(er) level user, it feels very very intuitive and you start to understand why it was designed in a way that looks so unappealing at first. If you do decide to try it again, I would highly recommend joining the SM discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK). There are a lot of very helpful people there.

rajlego 7y ago

I love that article, it changed a lot of my thinking regarding people's potential for success. Woz has a lot of other articles you might also find interesting here: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru. I've especially read through a lot of his articles on sleep and memory and found them invaluable. SuperMemo's interface was not designed with the beginner in mind. When I first started trying it even basic operations frustrated me to no end. But now that I use it as a high(er) level user, it feels very very intuitive and you start to understand why it was designed in a way that looks so unappealing at first. If you do decide to try it again, I would highly recommend joining the SM discord server (https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK https://discordapp.com/invite/pB7jcSK). There are a lot of very helpful people there.