<story><title>To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>You know. I&amp;#x27;ve never been interested in these e-ink notebooks where you can write on a digital screen that acts like paper. I&amp;#x27;ve always felt that actual pen and paper were superior.&lt;p&gt;However, if you add some good spaced repetition software to one of these e-notebooks then I think you will have finally surpassed pen and paper for note taking.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m thinking of something like, you take a note on a page and then save it. A week later the page of notes you wrote is presented to you again and you can draw boxes around parts of the page and blur &amp;#x2F; hide bits of text, etc; these then become your spaced repetition items. I&amp;#x27;ve heard of studies showing that hand written notes are superior for memory, this is the best of both worlds, hand written and then automatic spaced repetition.&lt;p&gt;And how much easier is it to surrender your life to a spaced repetition algorithm when it is it&amp;#x27;s own dedicated device? The idea of being able to memorize math, and other visual information, in addition to the usual written content (which is, again, better remembered if hand written) is so promising I&amp;#x27;d happily pay hundreds of dollars for such a device.&lt;p&gt;I know there are some fairly hackable e-ink tables out there, has anyone done this?</text></comment>
<story><title>To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djoldman</author><text>Free app based on the same idea:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.ankiweb.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apps.ankiweb.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ankitects&amp;#x2F;anki-manual&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ankitects&amp;#x2F;anki-manual&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>