Hello!

chapter 20 starts with some advice from mr heisig: he recommends to go through the earlier stories which work and find out why they work so well.

Did anyone take the time to reflect on the earlier stories and why they work and has this been of any use for you?

I am at 650 at the moment, actually having difficulties making up impressing stories on my own.

Thank you!
frlmarty

No. I simply recreate the stories in my failed cards. Me failing them proves that the story wasn't good enough.

True. If you are using the site or anki you should be reviewing the kanji anyway and making necessary changes anyway.

Remember that RTK was written before SRS existed. He didn't have the benefit of bar graphs telling him which cards had expired!

harhol Wrote:Remember that RTK was written before SRS existed. He didn't have the benefit of bar graphs telling him which cards had expired!

He means RevTK not SRS. SRS obviously existed before RTK was written.

RevTK: Reviewing the Kanji (this website).
RTK: Remembering the Kanji (Heisig's book).

SRS = spaced repetition software.

I might be wrong, but I thought SuperMemo was the first in 1985, eight years after Heisig wrote RTK.

harhol Wrote:SRS = spaced repetition software.

I might be wrong, but I thought SuperMemo was the first in 1985, eight years after Heisig wrote RTK.

I thought it was Spaced Repetition SYSTEM and that Leitner is such a system and was created in the 70s...

EDIT: Wikipedia agrees that it's spaced repetition software though.

The idea of "space repetition" reaches back to psychological experiments in the 19th century. But IIRC Leitner was the first practical application to see any use, and there wasn't enough data to design the computer algorithms we're used to now until the SuperMemo authors started experimenting. But yea, I doubt Heisig was aware of spaced repetition when he wrote the first edition.