Guides
Guides
Plain English, the answer first, and every claim with its source. New guides are added as they're written.
- Four weeks to an exam: a study plan that fits your daysFour weeks is enough if you start today: how wide to space your reviews, how many cards a day, and what the last week is for.31 October 2026
- Med school flashcards without six hours a dayThe studies tie Step 1 to steady daily use, not hours. Where the six hours go, what a shorter day looks like, and the honest limits of the evidence.1 November 2026
- Flashcards from your notes, and the mistakes that waste themOne point a card, a source on each, nothing you do not yet understand. Why not to drop the easy ones, and how to check a drafted card.1 November 2026
- Remember it for life: what the science says you needFifty-year, eight-year and nine-year studies of people who kept what they learnt. Gaps of weeks to months, kept up past the point of knowing it.31 October 2026
- Why new words vanish, and the one habit that keeps themA word met once is mostly gone within a day. How many meetings a word takes, when they should come, and the ten-minute habit that holds them.31 October 2026
- Why you forget what you read, and how to keep itReading is recognition, not recall, and the curve does the rest within a day. What keeps it: a question answered from memory, spaced out.31 October 2026
- The forgetting curve, in plain wordsSteep then flat. What Ebbinghaus measured, what the 2015 replication found, and how a scheduler like FSRS uses it card by card.31 October 2026
- Four weeks to an exam: a study plan that fits your daysFour weeks is enough if you start today. What the spacing research says about gaps, how many cards a day, and what the last week looks like.31 October 2026
- Active recall, done consistently: the habit that holdsWhy testing yourself beats rereading, why it feels worse while it works better, how much recall is enough, and the habit that survives a missed day.31 October 2026
- How to memorise a lot in a short time, and still have it next monthCramming works for tomorrow and fails for next month. Short gaps that grow, recall not rereading, stop at mastery, mix the topics.31 October 2026
- Anki backlog: what to do with 900 dueFive moves in Anki today that delete nothing, why the pile happens, and how a session sized to your time avoids it.31 October 2026