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Notes on spaced repetition, active recall, and effective learning. · 中文版

• Stop Highlighting and Rereading: What Actually Works Is Called Active Recall

  2026-08-28

  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.

• 'Bookmark It and Forget It' Isn't Your Fault: A Plain-English Guide to Spaced Repetition

  2026-08-21

  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.