Active Recall: Why Testing Yourself Beats Rereading (And How to Do It)
Testing yourself beats rereading by a medium effect across hundreds of studies. What active recall is, the evidence, its limits, and how to do it.
The Forgetting Curve: Why Memories Fade and How to Slow It
Forgetting is fastest soon after learning, then slows. What the forgetting curve shows, why rereading barely helps, and how to slow it down.
How to Improve Memory Naturally: What the Evidence Supports
The best ways to improve memory are free: test yourself, space your reviews and protect sleep. Here is what the evidence supports, and what it doesn’t.
Spaced Repetition: The Science, and How to Actually Use It
Spacing reviews out beats cramming across hundreds of experiments. How spaced repetition works, choosing gaps, making good cards and picking an app.
