hnous927

>"Studies have shown that taking notes by longhand will help you remember important meeting points better than tapping notes out on your laptop or smartphone."

By "doing it" I meant the thought process, the selecting process of what's important, not the medium in which you do your "whole studying".

Also that study means that taking notes by hands is better than with a computer. It doesn't mean learning with paper and pencil is better than with a computer, especially when we involve other things like a spaced repetition software.

SRS is mostly about the learning schedule, i.e. equal intervals and increasing intervals.

How you execute, whether with mnemonics or flashcards, is different.

With the umbrella term of "study or learning techniques", the learning schedule and execution are both included.

It takes time to consider whether something is worth committing to memory. I constantly rewrite cards and delete them.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback. Yes I have no affiliation with SuperMemo whatsoever. My previous 5-year Anki experience gives me in a unique position when comparing both software.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback! I don't see why not comparing "SRS over no repetition at all". To me, SRS or no SRS, they are all learning/studying methods.

All SRS algorithm is expanding, i.e. increasing intervals. So maybe with continue success, it'll be: 1 day, 2, 4, 16, 40, 300 (arbitrary numbers).

How do you propose to lean medical texts, if without SRS?

Mnemonic techniques only work with rote recall, whereas flashcards, if formulated well, can help induction, understanding, not just recall.

> Humans have been learning language as children the same way

But you can't disregard the fact that an adult's brain is different from a child's brain. An adult's brain has a lot of prior knowledge that a child doesn't possess. Concepts such as freedom, money, market are easily grasped by an adult whereas a child has to focus on the meaning rather than the words (the representations).

I think adults can take advantage of their prior knowledge to speed up language acquisition.

How do you propose to "learn as many words as possible"? What is the actual method? With Spaced Repetition Software like Anki or SuperMemo?