Source + Focus
Name the trusted article and optionally describe what you most want to remember.
Keep the useful parts of a long article.
Bring the article to your learning assistant, then use Learning to review its key points, verify the resulting cards, and export them.
The routine
Source identified. Cards reviewed. Deck exported.
Key Points
Keep a concise outline of the article’s central claims, models, distinctions, evidence, and limitations.
Review Cards
Check every card against the source. Edit, remove, or add cards before export.
Export
Copy the tab-separated deck into Anki and use spaced repetition for future retrieval.
Evidence review
What research supports—and what it means here.
Retrieving an idea improves later learning more reliably than rereading alone.
A large classroom meta-analysis found a consistent benefit from practice testing, and Read–Recite–Review research found that adding closed-book recitation improved retention without requiring more study time.
Retrieval works better when errors receive explanatory feedback and the corrected idea is retrieved again.
Feedback prevents confident errors from being preserved. Research supports feedback that explains the correction, while recent synthesis finds feedback conditions help determine whether retrieval beats elaboration.
Applying and explaining knowledge can improve transfer beyond repeating the original material.
Retrieval practice shows a modest but robust transfer benefit, and self-explanation has positive effects across many learning settings. That is why the routine ends with one new use, comparison, explanation, or response.
Important knowledge is better retained when later retrieval is spaced over time.
Spacing effects are well established, including for retrieval practice. Learning exports verified cards to Anki so a spaced-repetition scheduler can determine when each idea should return.