Ask HN: How do you remember what you've learned?
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Whenever I learn something new, I make notes in word. I keep thousands of such word Notes files on my HD. I have some dating 15+ years back. Usually your brain does the remembering, w/o even you know it, but when something I learned comes up either at work or in my personal life, and i am a bit rusty remembering, I can always find it in my files - refreshing my memory by reading my notes file.
I use anki on my mobile device. If I'm bored watching a show or waiting in a line at a restaurant I can go over some docker commands.
ANKI on mobile for everything
Nice things about using keep for this:
- access from any device
- nice UI
- supports images
- reminders to review a note
- half decent text editor
- searchable
- categories
- free
cons:
- mixed in with other notes in the default view
- hard to export for review in other formats
- have to manually set the interval (e.g. using reminder tool to set 3 days from now, then 1 week, then 1 month ect). This is tedious
- not suited for larger documents
- not really suited for flashcard style of studying
Other things I've tried:
- folders with text files
- ankiweb