Books by Heart Podcast Makes Memorizing Easy
I’ve launched a new podcast to help you memorize Scripture easily! To learn how it works, you can grab the first episode here, or read this slightly edited transcript.
I’ve launched a new podcast to help you memorize Scripture easily! To learn how it works, you can grab the first episode here, or read this slightly edited transcript.
When you first learn verses by heart, it feels like you’ll never forget them. But if you don’t renew these verses every so often, they’ll slowly fade away. Here’s how to remember these verses for the rest of your life.
Learning verses by heart only takes a little time each day, but you do need to take that time. Here’s a simple routine that will keep you on track.
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking With Einstein, learns a language with spaced repetition.
To review chapters from a long text, I skipped Anki this time around and tried … a paper chart. I can see a whole month’s worth of scheduled reviews at a glance.
When you’re memorizing a long poem, you don’t need visual mnemonics for every line. But if the poem is too repetitive, or too random, you may need a few extra loci to keep the stanzas in order.
Spaced Repetition is reviewing each fact just often enough so that you don’t forget it.
If you’re used to cramming, you’ll need to form some new habits for your spaced repetition. Check out these three simple study habits.
My favorite flashcard program is Anki. It’s open source and free, and here are the basics you need to know to start using it right know.
If you don’t like computers, you can track your facts with paper flashcards.