> Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones

> Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones of a human body then spaced repetition is what to use. I've just never had an analogous situation in programming. The only case I can really think of is learning the useful shortcuts for your IDEs, especially if you're switching between multiple IDEs for multiple languages. But even then I would rather just note them down and look them up when I need them. I tried Anki to learn emacs shortcuts and it's just such a slug. I don't want to spend time daily to maintain a mental database of senseless shortcuts.