Text files based note taking has been my prefered way to manage knowledge for several years. NVAlt and markdown files have been a great combination.<p>As I am also writing technical notes (for example when learning a new programming language or framework) I wish I could combine the file based notes with spaced repetition (similar to Anki).<p>Does anyone know a system where I can combine the two features (simple text note taking and spaced repetition)?
There certainly is, I coded one myself, but I never made any effort to publicize it.<p><a href="http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/</a><p>Basically you take notes like you normally would and the "diffs" of your notes become the elements you will review using spaced-repetition style intervals.<p>Drawbacks:<p>- It's not exactly user friendly in its current implementation.<p>- There isn't any way to give yourself a grade based on how well you remembered a piece of information.<p>- You must take care to write notes in small blurbs before running the "diff" command, otherwise I end up with large chunks of text to revise and I won't review properly.<p>- The lack of question-answer mechanism pretty much bypasses the whole "active recall" principle, or whatever that was called.<p>(Edit: spacing.)