http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/ "Diff revision: diff-based revision of text notes, using spaced repetition", François Savard
> A few years ago I started getting really frustrated with forgetting material > I studied for side projects and interests. I knew of flashcard spaced > repetition, but it didn’t really suit my need. So I built a tool to help > review text notes, to better remember their content. It serves many goals, > notably studying a large number of subjects over longer periods of time, by > taking advantage of text notes one would normally write anyway. The core idea > is to review differences between versions of note files using spaced > repetition intervals. I’ve been using this for about 3 years myself. > Why you would want to do this kind of review, in addition to, or instead of, > using a flashcard spaced repetition program? Succintly, and cutting corners: > > Putting knowledge in the form of flashcards is a lot of work (a lot of > time for a relatively small quantity of knowledge). > Also, the result is not an easily “browsable”, readable knowledge store. > On the other hand, taking continuous-text notes is very natural, easily > done, and helps making ideas clearer. > And you’re free to organize pieces of knowledge the way you want. > Also, personally, I just do it anyway, whether I review or not. In > itself it helps understanding, and remembering (generation effect). > But, contrary to flashcards, reviewing text that changes over time as we > learn more on a topic, is a challenge: which parts should be reviewed, if old > parts are well remembered, but novel bits, less familiar, are here and there > all over the document? > Hence reviewing the changes helps being efficient in your review of > what is also a useful reference text. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
