Thread: I've been thinking a lot about spaced repetition, but more broadly what @andy_matuschak calls Spaced Everything ( https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1244842003369570304) https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_systems_can_be_used_to_program_attention?stackedNotes=z59aJSjgqr4B1k1ofoE7ZBF2dv8MeJ1Drf4TQ. The idea is to revisit notes and concepts at regular intervals, both to improve your memory, but also to

trigger new associations and insights. Traditionally Anki has been used for more factual questions, but I love Andy's "taxonomy" of cards, where he might ask himself to sing a song, reflect on a metaphor, refute the notion of philosophical zoombies, etc. https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/973020621847187456

On the other hand, @fortelabs's concept of progressive summarization ( https://praxis.fortelabs.co/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes-3459b257d3eb) is the idea that you first capture things, and then revisit progressively adding structure and refinement. This spacing out in time again improves memory, because you are revisiting

but it also lazily defers the decision about which notes to spend more or less time on, and when you revisit things in the future you have a better view of their relative importance, and might be able to make interesting links to ideas you have thought about in the meantime.

@cortexfutura talks about what progressive summarization would look like in Roam, and proposes the term Context-Dependent Insight. @JoelChan86 proposes the term incremental formalization, which I also like ( https://roamresearch.com/#/app/megacoglab/page/uqjCEC29Z)

There's been a lot of enthusiasm around spaced repetition in @RoamResearch, and I particularly like @ShuOmi3's implementation of adding SRS questions while note taking . Advantage of doing it all in Roam is that you can always expand context.

The Roam Toolkit also has support for more advanced SRS algorithms https://github.com/roam-unofficial/roam-toolkit. However, I just thought of a much simpler approach that seems to give much of the same benefits: daily page retro. Every day, I add a link to my daily page 7, 30 and 90 days ago.

Then I click on that link, and revisit my notes. I ingest almost all of my primary content on Roam through my daily pages, but I also take notes on my emotions, motivations, ideas, meetings and time usage (how much varies a lot). This practice takes only 10 minutes a day, ...

but has a lot of benefits. You can revisit personal anecdotes (that's when my son did something cute), look back at predictions (I thought this project would go in a certain way), at practices (I tend to overestimate my time), emotions, but also process your notes...

I found a long Twitter thread from January which at the time seemed intriguing, but I didn't quite know "what to do about it". Now the topics are very relevant to other things I've read, and I went through adding some tags to make sure I rediscover. I look back at old ideas I had

see new connections, and so some "incremental formalization" as @JoelChan86 calls it ( https://roamresearch.com/#/app/megacoglab/page/uqjCEC29Z). Also makes me feel good that I can simply capture stuff on the daily page, and know that it will get revisited, it won't disappear into the black hole of old notes -

less pressure to assign the perfect tag right now. I also take a few notes on my retro, which means that when I retro the current page, it functions as a portal to my older notes as well - providing denser interlinking...

Revisiting personal events, emotions etc is a bit similar to @tasshinfogleman's concept of Mindful Review https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-case-for-first-brain-memory/. He also talks about an interesting concept of Lembranisation.