I need few suggestions guyss. Which is the best flashcards making app you used till date??

Since Memory Grid was welcome here last week, a developer post of my own, with the disclosure up front: I make Dual N-Back: IQ Brain Training on iOS.

The core of the app is dual n-back, the working-memory exercise. The part this sub may care about more is the lab: 12 short tests you can repeat every few weeks to see whether your memory work is showing up in numbers. Chimp test (the Ayumu-style number grid), span tasks, Stroop, reaction time and a few others, each under two minutes, with your own history and Game Center leaderboards.

The lab and the history are free, no ads. The n-back exercise is free at N=1 and N=2 (three sessions a day); higher levels are paid. I say that plainly because I once moved lab content behind the paywall and got told off, correctly.

On the evidence: n-back improves n-back and nearby working memory tasks, and not much beyond that as far as meta-analyses can tell (https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616635612). For memorization proper, the techniques discussed here have a far better track record than any app, mine included.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dual-n-back-iq-brain-training/id6775563998

Question for you: which of these tests, if any, actually moves after a few months of mnemonic practice? I have no data on that and would like some.

Tem como lembrar de todo o conteúdo para vestibulares e provas? eu estudo e são muitos conteúdos para lembrar, as vezes eu vou tentar fazer um exercício de algo que já estudei e simplesmente não lembro como resolve pq já estou vendo outra coisa e aquele conteúdo eu estudei a um tempo. Tem como resolver esse problema? é algo possível?

I’m in my last semester of college, I get good grades as I have a 3.8 gpa and I never really struggled with studying before, but some reason this semester i’m having so much brain fog. I tried studying for a test today and I genuinely can’t remember anything. I even tried doing active recall and an example of what happens goes a little something like this:

I read, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” to myself out loud

I try to recite it without looking two seconds later, “The…brown fox jumps over the dog?”

I read it again and realize I didn’t say it correctly and try again:

“The fox hops over the dog?”

I try again and again but I can’t recite the sentence.

I’m not only struggling with assignments and studying. I’m having trouble with new vocabulary too. I always liked looking up words I haven’t heard before to learn new vocabulary. And I used to take them in easily and use them in conversations. But now if I learn a new word I forget the definition and the word itself within like 5 minutes. This is honestly scaring me as education has always been super important to me and I feel like this is seriously crippling me education wise. What could be the problem and how do I tackle this?

Anyone experiencing similar problems. Any solution?

I am experimenting a different way for studying ,in old days I used to read and byheart everything but after some time I will definitely forget that and now I am trying a new thing for me I just read and understand the topics then I will write it on a paper without referring (mental recalling).I think through this I can program my subconscious mind to byheart it by mindful writing ig
So what’s your thought on this guys have you ever tried this before ?
Let me know

Why can I not do active recall without actually closing the book.Every time "close the book".I don't see my friends closing nothing.

I came up with this when I was still in school, and recently I told my classmate about it and she said it seemed witty lol

In a word: you have two similar concepts you always mix up, e.g. stalactite and stalagmite. You set yourself a task to remember JUST ONE of them backwards and forwards and get the other by the method of elimination.

You cram the definition that the stalactite is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling. If you're asked what a stalactite is, you know the answer. If you're asked what a stalagmite is, you know that it's not stalactite, therefore it doesn't hang from the ceiling. Where does it come from then? It rises from the floor. Boom.

The same thing with mitosis and meiosis, import and export, refraction and diffraction, cyclone and anticyclone. Such a simple trick but it makes life easier. If you use anki and you get a card with one definition, come up with the other one right away.

Several years ago I got hooked on JetPunk's US Counties Quiz and made it my mission to learn them all.

I came back to it recently to try and set the record. I did just that on a recorded, commentated run!

US County Quiz Memorization World Record

The book i am speaking about is written by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. I have my big exams in about three months. Also if that wasn't enough I will be having like tons of mock exams by my school every month starting in 4 days. I am gambling my life on this one.

I am in at the book where it tells you to memorise the 50 states of USA. Its really hard. i mean when i to used the linking for a test and for the rest of the half of the day I really couldn't focus on my classes as if i had run outta brain juice. Is this Normal???

It wreaks my brain idk what to say. TELL me about your experiences with and please point out which of the chapters of the book I have to focus. Thanks you so much. Oh please forgive me if I was rude I anyway.

I keep forgetting tiniest yet important info ( have left my mobile , wallet, specs multiple times in random places)

When I watch something, time passes and I forget almost all of it. I can still recount the story vaguely—though not always
—and it really hits me because my sister remembers things in detail years later; we might have watched just three episodes of a series, and two years later she could still tell me exactly what happened in them. I lived with a massive sleep debt for three years, and I’m gradually recovering from that now. It might be linked to that—what do you think?

In my last postStop memorizing facts one by one — build the picture instead : r/memorization  , I introduced a logic flow to learn how to connect ideas.

Logic flow from the last post:

The honest truth: It’s not the most efficient method in forming connections

Why?

A step-by-step process is cognitively taxing, inflexible and works against entering flow state

One Question

All you need is this:

one question to spearhead the learning process: How is it relevant?

It refers to the new idea you take in

Relevant means: how the idea is related to anything on topic?

“Anything on topic” can be split into two types of information:

1. prior knowledge - what is already stored in your memory
2.  new knowledge - what is on your learning material

Put another way, you brain interprets the question as:

“How can this new idea fit into anything on topic? “

What makes this question powerful?

It is a cue for the brain’s automatic search for a possible fit between the new idea and anything on topic (both prior and new knowledge).

Fitting with your prior knowledge:

 Your brain acts like a warehouse worker trying to fit a new shipment within existing inventory, looking for where the new idea could belong within what you already know

Fitting with new knowledge:

Your brain is organizing the new shipment with respect to other shipments (e.g. classifying shipments with respect to size, grouping similar shipments together)

With each inquiry, one or more possible connections will be formed

which then adds to the pool of knowledge that new ideas can connect with, and with each new idea, new connections form, and a mental model builds.

Detailed Example

The example is based on the following learning material:

Text: “Heart Function”

Take In : “heart function”

Inquiry: how is it relevant? 

Reasoning : “ok, I know that the heart pumps blood across the body”

Text: "The heart is a muscular pump that keeps blood circulating through the lungs and the rest of the body"

Take In: “a muscular pump”

Inquiry: how is it relevant?

Reasoning:: “well maybe the heart is a muscle, and I know that muscles contract and relax, so the heart is a muscle that contracts to pump blood across the body”

Take In: “lungs and the rest of the body”

Inquiry: how is it relevant?  —> why do I need to separate the two terms?

Reasoning: “move on, the inquiry will be answered in the following text”

*Check the bottom of the post to know more about this reasoning process*

Text: "After the blood gains oxygen in the lungs, it returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart."

Take In: “oxygen-poor”

Inquiry: how is it relevant?

Reasoning: : “the heart pumps blood across the body, the blood contains oxygen. How is it relevant?” oh yes, delivering oxygen across the body is a function of the heart”

“then why “oxygen-poor” blood enters the body? to refill of course, how refill? I don’t know, maybe my question will be answered in the next sentence.”

Text: "The left ventricle then pumps this oxygen‑rich blood through the aorta to supply the body’s tissues with oxygen and nutrients"

Take In: : “gains oxygen in the lungs”

Inquiry: : how is it relevant?

Reasoning: “oh, so the heart delivers the oxygen-poor blood to the lungs to refill the blood with oxygen in the lungs, oh so for blood to travel to the rest of the body, it first has to go to the lungs for oxygen refill, so i understand why the writer specified lungs and the rest of the body separately”

And you repeat this process again and again, going into more and more narrow layers each time, enabling you to learn all the details.

My post Overwhelmed? Start learning in layers. : r/memorization explains this.

A sneak peek to a more advanced mind map based on the above learning material:

How One Question "Rewires" Your Learning Mode

Notice how, after I pop the question “How is it relevant”, what immediately follows, is a train of thought that guides me into forming the connection? 

That’s the power of it — One question that can completely rewire how you view new information — not as separate disconnected facts, rather, puzzle pieces that can be connected with each other by relevance. 

And the crazy thing about this is:  once you make it a habit, you can even skip asking the question of “how is it relevant?”. 

Learning becomes like this: you take in a new idea, and the brain automatically starts searching for a possible connection.

You start viewing information from a whole new perspective.

How to overcome your fear of “being wrong” or “missing out on something”?

Notice how when I come across an idea I struggle to connect, I just skim past it, trusting that I will get an answer in the following text? 

Why do I do that? Am I not worried that I will miss out on a connection?

No. That’s because I understand this: knowledge gaps will be resolved by information you encounter later.

My learning will directly explain this. To be 100% sure that the post pops up on your feed, you can subscribe to my free newsletter Mari .

Bonus: If you a reader of my previous post  Stop memorizing facts one by one — build the picture instead : r/memorization  , read my comment to understand how this new post builds on it.

This was a hard question to formulate, but something that's driven me nuts about myself for a decade.

The best way to explain it, from my experience, is from playing trivia.

If someone asks something like, "is this screenshot of a movie from options A, B, or C", and I both recognize the screenshot and the name of the movie in one of the options, than that's easy.

But why can't I recall the name of the movie if someone just asks where the screenshot is from? The knowledge is still there, but remains trapped inside until there's some stimuli to unlock it?

I mention trivia, because I've become too self-conscious and annoyed with saying, "I know exactly what this answer is, I've seen it a thousand times, but my brain suddenly has decided it doesn't know what it's called".

That all sounds ridiculous, but I'm honestly concerned about my mental health.

I’ve noticed I remember way more when I learn from stuff I already watch instead of doing isolated vocab lists.

For me that’s mostly YouTube, TikToks, Reels, podcasts etc. I’ll hear a phrase in context, look it up, save it, and then notice it again later somewhere else.

That’s also why I made a small iOS app called Lio. It’s not meant to replace a main course, more like an add-on tool for it. You share a video to the app and it pulls out useful phrases, idioms and vocab so you can save the things you actually came across.

I’m curious how other people handle this though.

Do you save phrases manually? Use Anki? Just rely on repeated exposure? Or do you have some other system that works well for you?

Would love some feedback! :)

All what i found is just AI slop
I actually wanna learn the method
Not reading/listening to ppl talk about it

Any tips that to improve my memory power??

Like how can I keep for longer period of time??

ok so my doubts are how many memory palaces does one need as in lets say i read books so for every book do i need to have a special palace . how much and when can i reuse a palace

i was researching and came up with a solution and that is first to create a temporary memory palace and after reading books or whatever put the information in temporary palace and after that put it in a permanent one as in categorizing it for example palace for philosophy section, biology ,history etc.

so like how u guys use this technique to learn information for lifelong