Spaced Review Schedule
Review something just before you would have lost it, and it stays. Enter the day you learned it and this lists when each review falls, with the gaps widening every time.
A notebook page to print
One item per line. Write the next review date in the margin; when you review, cross it off and write the next one.
| Next review | Question (answer on the back or the facing page) |
|---|---|
How it follows the essay
A new fact is vivid for an hour, patchy within the week, and gone soon after unless something intervenes. Each effortful retrieval buys a longer stretch before it becomes unreachable, so the next review belongs further out than the last: reviewed the day after, it might last three or four days; reviewed then, a couple of weeks; after that, a month or more. The schedule follows that pattern: the next day, three days later, two weeks later, a month later, then about two months.
The dates are not precise and do not need to be: a review a few days off the ideal still asks you to reach. What matters is that each review is a real attempt to produce the answer before you check it. When an answer comes only after a long struggle, or not at all, start the item again from the first interval. Only put things in the rotation that you already understand, and that ordinary life will not remind you of on its own.
The method is set out in full in Spaced Repetition for Ordinary Life.
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