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>"Studies have shown that taking notes by longhand will help you remember important meeting points better than tapping notes out on your laptop or smartphone."

By "doing it" I meant the thought process, the selecting process of what's important, not the medium in which you do your "whole studying".

Also that study means that taking notes by hands is better than with a computer. It doesn't mean learning with paper and pencil is better than with a computer, especially when we involve other things like a spaced repetition software.

SRS is mostly about the learning schedule, i.e. equal intervals and increasing intervals.

How you execute, whether with mnemonics or flashcards, is different.

With the umbrella term of "study or learning techniques", the learning schedule and execution are both included.

It takes time to consider whether something is worth committing to memory. I constantly rewrite cards and delete them.

We are talking about https://super-memo.com/. The supermemo.com/SuperMemo World is different. I never used the latter. I think they are managed by two different groups of people.

SuperMemo 15 is free. The latest version is paid software unfortunately.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback. Yes I have no affiliation with SuperMemo whatsoever. My previous 5-year Anki experience gives me in a unique position when comparing both software.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback! I don't see why not comparing "SRS over no repetition at all". To me, SRS or no SRS, they are all learning/studying methods.

All SRS algorithm is expanding, i.e. increasing intervals. So maybe with continue success, it'll be: 1 day, 2, 4, 16, 40, 300 (arbitrary numbers).

How do you propose to lean medical texts, if without SRS?

Mnemonic techniques only work with rote recall, whereas flashcards, if formulated well, can help induction, understanding, not just recall.

> Humans have been learning language as children the same way

But you can't disregard the fact that an adult's brain is different from a child's brain. An adult's brain has a lot of prior knowledge that a child doesn't possess. Concepts such as freedom, money, market are easily grasped by an adult whereas a child has to focus on the meaning rather than the words (the representations).

I think adults can take advantage of their prior knowledge to speed up language acquisition.

How do you propose to "learn as many words as possible"? What is the actual method? With Spaced Repetition Software like Anki or SuperMemo?

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback!

Yes, I think decks have to be personalized. But I don't agree the argument that "writing out in pencil then transferring back to a Spaced Repetition Software" is better than "pre-made selections of reading material". For Incremental Reading, you have to select the important parts; there's no pre-made selection. It's just like highlighting; the material isn't pre-highlighted. I think the most important thing is the thought process: thinking which part is important and which isn't. The medium, whether you are doing it in paper and pencil is no difference than doing it digitally.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback! I have added a quick terminology guide at the top of each article. > A short statement and purpose... I will keep this in mind when writing articles in the future.

I’m OP. Thank you for the feedback!

Could you tell me more what makes it hard to read?

I’ve written about Incremental Reading. Hopefully this could serve as a brief introduction:

https://masterhowtolearn.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/the-signif...

I’m OP. Thank you very much for the constructive comment. I really appreciate it! I’ve added a quick terminology guide at the top of each article.