Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
Epistemic status: splitting hairs. Originally published as a shortform; thanks @Arjun Panickssery for telling me to publish this as a full post. There’s been a lot of recent work on memory. This is great, but popular communication of that progress consistently mixes up active recall and spaced repetition. That
Memoria 2025 was a one-day, ~120-person unconference/festival on spaced repetition, incremental reading, and memory systems, held at Lighthaven in Berkeley, CA, on September 22, 2025, and organized by Saul Munn and Raj Thimmiah. The goal of this post is to provide context on the event — what caused it to