If anyone wants to try this method, check out <a href="http://cardflashapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cardflashapp.com/</a> which I hope to make into a simpler alternative to ANKI (still very much a work in progress though)
I and I think everyone else heard of spaced repetition software from that Wired article in ... 2007, was it?<p>Here's my favourite writeup so far:<p><a href="http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html</a><p>My main problem is having a fixed time to do the reviews.<p>The second "problem" is that repetition just helps you to remember. Until you understand what you're memorising, it's useless. (This is the first thing you're told, but I'll tell you again).<p>So the truly hard work -- wrestling with material until you <i>get</i> it -- is still there. You just get to cut down on how often you'll have to do it in future.