I find that all of those activities enhance my SRS experience, and my SRS experience (sometimes dramatically) enhances all of those activities!
Particularly since I use SRS to capture concepts, intuitions, and rich relationships, not just isolated facts. Rote memorization doesn’t work very well with SRS anyway—as with everything, it works best when used to understand a topic in its full intuitive glory.
Why “instead?”
I find that all of those activities enhance my SRS experience, and my SRS experience (sometimes dramatically) enhances all of those activities!
Particularly since I use SRS to capture concepts, intuitions, and rich relationships, not just isolated facts. Rote memorization doesn’t work very well with SRS anyway—as with everything, it works best when used to understand a topic in its full intuitive glory.