Ask HN: How do you remember what you've learned?

3 points by jdr23bc 6 years ago | 3 comments

I've been using google keep to take notes and remind myself to review them with spaced repetition (more about spaced repetition https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html)

Nice things about using keep for this:

- access from any device

- nice UI

- supports images

- reminders to review a note

- half decent text editor

- searchable

- categories

- free

cons:

- mixed in with other notes in the default view

- hard to export for review in other formats

- have to manually set the interval (e.g. using reminder tool to set 3 days from now, then 1 week, then 1 month ect). This is tedious

- not suited for larger documents

- not really suited for flashcard style of studying

Other things I've tried:

- folders with text files

- ankiweb

pr07ecH70r 6 years ago |

Whenever I learn something new, I make notes in word. I keep thousands of such word Notes files on my HD. I have some dating 15+ years back. Usually your brain does the remembering, w/o even you know it, but when something I learned comes up either at work or in my personal life, and i am a bit rusty remembering, I can always find it in my files - refreshing my memory by reading my notes file.

JamesBarney 6 years ago |

I use anki on my mobile device. If I'm bored watching a show or waiting in a line at a restaurant I can go over some docker commands.

misiti3780 6 years ago |

ANKI on mobile for everything