Can you please expand on that. Is'nt Anki one of the most popular tools for using spaced repitition? By meaning spaced repetition is easier do you mean to refer to some other tools which makes it easy to implement and use?
If you reread chapters of a book in intervals, you are doing spaced repetition. If you return back to previous topic in math and do exercises again, you do spaced repetition.
Flashcard are just easy to implement application of it.
Yes among flashcards, anki is the most popular. But naive use of it leads to a lot of pain and tons of problems, you have to learn how to use anki.
Default settings are ok although I'd say 2 things that are counter to some common advice there:
* Actually use all 4 ratings buttons, and come up with a scheme for when. For me it was 1: missed it, 2: had to guess, but guessed right, 3: got it, 4: got it without even reading the entire prompt
* If you're insistent on the (IMO bad advice) "only use 1 and 3 keys" thing, install the "Straight Rewards" plugin. Without it, all your ease factors will decay to their lowest level (130% by default) since '1' lowers it, but '3' does not raise it, so it can only go down. With "Straight Rewards", it'll up the ease factor for you gently as you rate a card '3' enough times in a row.
Alternately, install the FSRS4Anki plugin. It's more work, but is a more dynamic scheduler. Requires the V3 Anki scheduler being enabled, and one of the more later versions. Do some reading on this before you try it; you can always go back, but it's not been proven yet to be substantially better than SM2.
I think it is pretty well established that simply re-reading can trick you into thinking that you know the material (via recognition) instead of actually remembering/understanding.
Listening to your favorite new song everyday for a week is spaced repetition and very enjoyable, no pain whatsoever. You'll quickly learn the nuances of the song that you didn't pick up in your first few listens. Also a great way to memorize lyrics.
> Listening to your favorite new song everyday for a week is spaced repetition and very enjoyable, no pain whatsoever.
That's not really SRS though; a key part of SRS is the heuristic for when you next get exposed to the thing you're trying to remember based on your previous "got it"/"missed it" response. I suppose "every day" is one such heuristic, but it's not really in the spirit of SRS.
And you're mixing up enjoying the content with the mechanics of an SRS system.
That's a good example of an exceptional case. It is a good result to know. But really the learning-science is concerned about how to make learning so enjoyable that you are willing to do it. However the case of learning your favorite tune does not help much with the general question of what techniques you should use when trying to learn something else than your favorite tune :-)
Being exposed to a song does not really counts as learning, but another thing is an analysis of chords, lyrics, post-procession effects, rhythm. Intention to repeat that in their own creative project is a judge.
Yes you have. But that has happened by accident. You didn't try to learn the song, you just happened to be somewhere it was playing many times. (I say 'many' if you really learned the whole song correctly)
If you really WANT to learn something you cannot rely on such accidents happening. Accidents are not a method.
In some genres, such as opera or modern pop songs like "pumped up kicks" or rap with some well-hidden links, or just a song containing some foreign language - this approach is so hard that if you want to learn you just download the lyrics and just read with no distortion of sense.
This is not true. Anki is tedious and causes pain. Flashcards are such in general.
But dpaced repetition does not requires either.