Highlighting, copying notes, rereading chapters — the most popular study techniques sit at the bottom of cognitive science's effectiveness rankings. Here's why active recall works, why it feels wrong, and how to fold it into everyday reading.
Hundreds of saved articles, and you can't remember a single one? That's not a personal failing — forgetting is the brain's default. Here's how spaced repetition and the FSRS algorithm actually work, and how they turn scattered reading into knowledge that sticks.