Sort of off topic, but I'm always really surprised how well posts about spaced repetition and Anki do on HN.
I've been in the spaced repetition community for years and we honestly feel extremely niche and small even amongst eachother. It's cool to see that the community might be larger than I thought.
I think the idea of "optimized learning" is largely appealing to us nerds and electron technicians.
Personally, I would love to have the dopamine response that allows for repetitive tasks to become appealing. Unfortunately, I've roasted my attention with social media and YouTube.
For me it grew from a horror of the state I find myself when I just *can't* recall something I have known or have to lookup things several times. Then the satisfaction of never having that feeling again!
I'll let you decide if using anki for 6+ years and with a 1000+ days streak counts at "long". In any case it doesn't have to 100% solve my memory issues to satisfy the goal I described above, it just has to solve it enough to make me feel okay with some forgetting because I literaly couldn't try harder.
I've been in the spaced repetition community for years and we honestly feel extremely niche and small even amongst eachother. It's cool to see that the community might be larger than I thought.