Hi,

We all agree that SRS (as well as other memory techniques) is a powerful method to memorize anything, learn almost anything (surprise your friends ) and so on, but I would like to know what you think about other "creative" uses for this. For example, what about improving your chess game.

Cheers

日本語には一本気だから、考えたら見つからなかった〜

The only thing that came to my mind was improving your reading speed of sheet music. My friend has just started playing piano and reading of the notes is really slowing her down. So, maybe if you start out with picture of single note on the question side and the answer being name + tone and then proceed to longer strings of notes you might be even able to improve your musical ear and play something just after hearing it (without seeing the notes first). Haha I will suggest her to do this and, in case she agrees, post the results

Tarah Wrote:The only thing that came to my mind was improving your reading speed of sheet music. My friend has just started playing piano and reading of the notes is really slowing her down. So, maybe if you start out with picture of single note on the question side and the answer being name + tone and then proceed to longer strings of notes you might be even able to improve your musical ear and play something just after hearing it (without seeing the notes first). Haha I will suggest her to do this and, in case she agrees, post the results

That's a great idea.

At one time I was going to use an SRS to learn algorithms for solving Rubik's Cubes. I never got around to it though.

I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

Nukemarine Wrote:I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

....for what purpose? O.o

yukamina Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

....for what purpose? O.o

Probably so that he can listen to the songs he likes more frequently.

Nukemarine Wrote:I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

That's a genius idea.

tiachopvutru Wrote:

yukamina Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

....for what purpose? O.o

Probably so that he can listen to the songs he likes more frequently.

Why not simply create playlists of the songs he likes...

Nukemarine Wrote:I like how Glowing Face Man wrote about how he puts his music mp3's in Anki. He marks as wrong songs he likes and easy songs he doesn't like as much.

That's geek and funny.

I don't know how creative this is, but...

For those that don't know (I didn't a few months ago) the US Navy (maybe all branches?) tends to put people in a Delayed Entry Program for typically a few months, and during this time you can earn an early promotion by memorizing a bunch of stuff and taking a test at boot camp.

I learned all of this stuff using Anki, in about two weeks, typically spending no more than 30 minutes a day.

During this period before you ship, there are monthly meetings for the recruiters and all of the other Delayed Entree people. At these meetings recruiters will call on people to recite this stuff. Knowing that I had all of this stuff memorized already, my recruiter called on me, at which point his boss said that it was a bit unfair because I'd been in for so short a period. I smiled, stood up and spouted off what I was asked (the eleven general orders for a sentry). Pretty much everyone was shocked.

I felt a little sheepish knowing I had used such a powerful tool that nobody knew about, but I figure it's their own fault for not finding out about it.

I'm planning on building a deck on linux commands... especially ones that I don't use often or forgot about.

Sounds like America's finest got a new secret weapon! Remember though, loose lips sink ships. Good luck to you in the Navy zerOrange!

jbudding Wrote:Sounds like America's finest got a new secret weapon! Remember though, loose lips sink ships. Good luck to you in the Navy zerOrange!

Hehe. First - thanks, hopefully I won't need any. And my lips are firmly sealed re: SRS... although I've found that the people I have told about it don't follow through using it anyway.

zer0range Wrote:... I've found that the people I have told about it don't follow through using it anyway.

Exactly.

People here are fanatics about SRSs, but I find them boring and too study-like. I'm fine with SRSing my sentences, but vocab has become a dull chore. I tried using Mnemosyne to learn Hanzi, but I've given up before 500. I hope my new Hanzi method will work *sigh*

@ yakamina:

Don't give up do what I do; I HATE SRSing stuff for school--it's so efficient, but it's SOOOOOO BORING. I. can't. stand. it. So I decided that I would commit to 15 minutes a day for a class. That's it. Everyday, I plug in my 15 minutes, no more. I add and review stuff from my notes, etc., and when the time is over, I'm done for the day. I'm sure you could apply the principle to Japanese or Chinese or whatever you're studying.

Also, try not to SRS vocabulary all by itself. That's the purpose of sentences; you get to learn the meaning of new vocabulary, how to use it, and other sentence patterns all at once.