Superintelligence
Anki: How I Try to Use Forgetting in My Advantage + Anki Addon
And why I think forgetting isn’t a bad thing
A quote from the Anki page seems to be:
Remember Efficiently: Only practice the material that you’re about to forget.
I, however, don’t think being unable to recall something is a bad thing per se.
Why not? Well, there are essentially two components of memory: Storage strength and retrieval strength.
When you are unable to recall something, it probably means your retrieval strength wasn’t “strong” enough. The storage strength, however, could have remained almost stable since the period you first learned something.
This means that when you relearn something, you aren’t exactly “starting over at zero” (i.e. the storage strength is still present). This is also why many Anki users recommend setting “New interval” to anything other than “zero” (I put mine at 70%):
