Isn’t there anything you already know but wouldn’t like to forget? SRS is for keeping your precious memory storage, not necessarily for learning new stuff. There are probably a lot of things that wouldn’t even cross your mind to google if they were erased by time. Googling could also waste time compared to storing memories if you have to do it often enough (roughly 5 minutes in your lifetime per fact).
What other skills work nicely with spaced repetition?
In my experience anything you can write into brief flashcards. Some simple facts can work as handles for broader concepts once you’ve learned them. You could even record triggers for episodic memories that are important to you.
Isn’t there anything you already know but wouldn’t like to forget?
Yeah, that’s pretty much the problem. Not really. I.e. there are stuff I know that would be inconvenient to forget, because I use this knowledge every day. But since I already use it every day, SR seems unnecessary.
Things I don’t use every day are not essential—the cost of looking them up is minuscule since it happens rarely.
I suppose a plausible use case would be birth dates of family members, if I didn’t have google calendar to remind me when needed.
Edit: another use case that comes to mind would be names. I’m pretty bad with names (though I’ve recently begun to suspect that probably I’m as bad with remembering names as anyone else, I just fail to pay attention when people introduce themselves). But asking to take someone’s picture ‘so that I can put it on a flashcard’ seems awkward. Facebook to the rescue, I guess?
(though I don’t really meet that many people, so again—possibly not worth the effort in maintaining such a system)
Isn’t there anything you already know but wouldn’t like to forget? SRS is for keeping your precious memory storage, not necessarily for learning new stuff. There are probably a lot of things that wouldn’t even cross your mind to google if they were erased by time. Googling could also waste time compared to storing memories if you have to do it often enough (roughly 5 minutes in your lifetime per fact).
In my experience anything you can write into brief flashcards. Some simple facts can work as handles for broader concepts once you’ve learned them. You could even record triggers for episodic memories that are important to you.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the problem. Not really. I.e. there are stuff I know that would be inconvenient to forget, because I use this knowledge every day. But since I already use it every day, SR seems unnecessary.
Things I don’t use every day are not essential—the cost of looking them up is minuscule since it happens rarely.
I suppose a plausible use case would be birth dates of family members, if I didn’t have google calendar to remind me when needed.
Edit: another use case that comes to mind would be names. I’m pretty bad with names (though I’ve recently begun to suspect that probably I’m as bad with remembering names as anyone else, I just fail to pay attention when people introduce themselves). But asking to take someone’s picture ‘so that I can put it on a flashcard’ seems awkward. Facebook to the rescue, I guess?
(though I don’t really meet that many people, so again—possibly not worth the effort in maintaining such a system)