Folio 02Retain material over time

Spaced repetition

Reviews spread over days beat the same time spent in one sitting.

Evidence recordStrongly supported

The useful move

Revisit material across separate days instead of compressing review into one sitting.

Why timing matters

Memory fades on a curve, and the best moment to review something is right around when you'd otherwise forget it. Spacing reviews out — a day later, then a few days, then a week — resets that curve with less and less effort each time.

Spacing versus cramming

Cramming works for tomorrow morning and evaporates by next week. Spaced reviews take the same total minutes and hold for months. It feels harder in the moment (you've started to forget), and that difficulty is exactly why it works.

Let the review loop carry it

You don't have to schedule anything by hand — the Learn loop tracks every quiz question and flashcard you review and resurfaces each one when it's due.

Move from reading to doing

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Sources behind this method

Follow the published work behind the evidence assessment and see why each source matters here.

  1. Distributed Practice in Verbal Recall Tasks: A Review and Quantitative Synthesis

    A quantitative review of 317 experiments found a durable advantage for spaced over massed practice across verbal-memory tasks.

  2. Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques

    This review identifies distributed practice as one of the most broadly useful learning techniques.