Flashcards

Spaced repetition systems

January 3, 2015 — April 1, 2017

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More on the theory and background has been written by others. An example of integrating flashcards into an intensive learning system for theorems and mathematics is here.

Here are some practical notes for my own personal usage.

If you need to build flash card to cover your own research area, there are two contenders, Anki and Mnemosyne. I use the former because it has the convenient features of testing your flashcards on a smartphone, but they are both open-source-ish.