Would spaced repetition be an effective way of memorizing things such as books? i used anki last night to memorize 10 elements & it was very effective the thing is though i’m not sure if anki is suitable for memorizing anything more than simple short questions & answers any advice would be much appreciated
Are you trying to memorize the book word for word or get the general idea from each chapter? I know anki is more of a flash card type program so if you were trying to remember a book word for word that would take a lot of cards.
Let me ask, How did you use anki to remember the elements? Did you have the element then your image for it?
Well i was speaking to josh & he gave me a deck with 10 elements on it i was struggling quite a lot with it but later on after we got off the chat i used the card deck he gave me & that’s how i memorized the 10 elements there’s still like another 40 or so but i’d say 10 for a complete beginner such as myself who doesn’t really know anything about mnemonics is pretty good the biggest trouble i’ve ran into so far is trying to remember numbers for some reasons numbers are very difficult i find things that aren’t numbers to be much easier to remember i was trying to remember the binary digit card deck but i keep getting the number names & the numbers themselves mixed up
well for memorizing a book i wouldn’t mind either word for word or at least be able to have a very good in depth overview of what each page/s or chapter is about & the ideas & concepts that are presented because usually when i read i don’t remember alot of it just bits here & there but the retention usually seems to depend on what i’m reading & the relevance of the information & how interesting or useful it is
It depends a bit on your needs. Refer elsewhere on this forum for tactics on learning books (at various levels, as described by @Bateman).
But certain verbatim memorisation comes with certain needs. To give one specific example, people who memorise the Bible and/or Qur’an would have the following common scenarios:
- reciting an entire chapter / section
- being given or hearing a single line, and then having to recall the verses that follow
Anki can help with both of those, offering prompts to recite entire sections. You can also use the “cloze” function on Anki to very quickly generate tests that will take care of part two of the scenarios mentioned above. I use that myself and can strongly vouch for its efficacy in that sphere.