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Chapter 6: "Not Just Text, A Fully Supported Note Editor"
With the Itera Note Editor, you can use all the features of Markdown. In addition to Markdown, which allows you to write aesthetically pleasing text quickly, Itera also offers you ready-made note templates. You can add
Chapter 6: "Not Just Text, A Fully Supported Note Editor"
With the Itera Note Editor, you can use all the features of Markdown. In addition to Markdown, which allows you to write aesthetically pleasing text quickly, Itera also offers you ready-made note templates. You can add images to your notes and make them attractive.
Also, while reviewing your notes, focus only on the card you need to learn with Itera's "Concentration Mode." Eliminate all the noise with a single click and use the full power of your brain. Did I remember it or not? The decision is yours.
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Chapter 5: "Introducing: Itera. Your Personal Shield Against Forgetting."
The magic of the Leitner system is obvious, but how do we carry those boxes from school to home every day? This is where our goal with Itera is to provide you with convenience. You can review your notes
Chapter 5: "Introducing: Itera. Your Personal Shield Against Forgetting."
The magic of the Leitner system is obvious, but how do we carry those boxes from school to home every day? This is where our goal with Itera is to provide you with convenience. You can review your notes with Itera using the Leitner System by taking a photo of them or by writing them down.
This way, you can access your account and your notes from anywhere with an internet connection and do your reviews anytime, anywhere. Itera automatically tracks the boxes for you, saving you from checking your calendar every day and tracking notes. With Itera, all you need to do is import your note and come in every day to do your review and leave. Itera handles all the tracking and storage for you.
Moreover, you can take visually satisfying notes with markdown support while note-taking. You can benefit from world-famous note-taking strategies with ready-made note templates. You can also share your notes with your friends and create a Collective Mind.
Itera is a humble tool that will accompany you on your journey to make what you learn permanent. In the next 3 chapters, you can discover the features of Itera.
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Chapter 4: "The Heart of Itera: What is the Leitner System and How Does It Work?"
The answer to all the questions lies in the Leitner System. According to the Leitner Repetition System, let's say you have a note on Day 1. You put this in the "daily" box. So what is this box?
Chapter 4: "The Heart of Itera: What is the Leitner System and How Does It Work?"
The answer to all the questions lies in the Leitner System. According to the Leitner Repetition System, let's say you have a note on Day 1. You put this in the "daily" box. So what is this box? This is the box where the notes inside are reviewed every day.
In our system, there are also boxes for every two days, every four days, once a week, and once every two weeks. Each box is opened at the intervals written on it, and the notes inside are reviewed. A note enters the system by being placed in the first box. On Day 1, the "daily" box is opened, and the notes inside are reviewed. If the review is successful, the notes move to the next higher box, the "every two days" box. And when the "every two days" box is opened, the notes inside are reviewed. If the review is successful, the notes move to the next higher box; if not, they stay in that box until the review is successful.
The same logic always applies. If the note you have is remembered every time the box is opened, it successfully passes the 5 stages we talked about in the previous chapter, is transferred to permanent memory, and leaves the last box, exiting the system. Because it has now been learned permanently. If the review is unsuccessful at any stage, it remains in that box until the review is successful, ensuring that the 5 stages are definitively completed.
With the calendar we have, it is very easy to track which box will be opened on which days of the month (because the "every two days" box will be opened on the 2nd, 4th, 6th... days of the month, and the "every four days" box on the 4th, 8th, 12th... days). This way, each note experiences its personal forgetting curve correctly, and we don't need to track each note one by one.
Thanks to the boxes and the calendar, we ensure that each note uses its forgetting curve correctly. And tracking becomes very easy. Additionally, a note overload never occurs in the system. Because after the 14th day, as notes leave the system, new notes enter, and an input-output balance is established.
Thus, the note load does not increase or decrease over time. It stabilizes. You no longer have a pile of notes that you don't know what to do with. Your review time and the number of notes are now specific. This time and number do not change and never create a heavy burden for you. And all notes are learned permanently with spaced repetition, and with effortless tracking.
This is how the Leitner system, with this logical flow, both saves you from piles of notes and does not act against the nature of your mind, but cooperates with it, using a scientific learning strategy suitable for the human mind. You can review without losing motivation, and you can support your learning by performing your reviews quickly but systematically and optimally.
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Chapter 3: "Something Cooking... #StayTuned"
Our goal with the system you are currently learning is to make learning permanent and to help you learn strategically and effortlessly with the right strategy, freeing you from the stress of piles of notes and mental overload.
First
Chapter 3: "Something Cooking... #StayTuned"
Our goal with the system you are currently learning is to make learning permanent and to help you learn strategically and effortlessly with the right strategy, freeing you from the stress of piles of notes and mental overload.
First of all, when taking notes on a topic you are learning, you should not write everything down. You already know the parts you know. The important thing is to remember the important parts that you don't know and are likely to forget. For this exact reason, you should identify these parts - that is, the pure parts you want to learn - and take notes on them. Short and concise. New, important, and need-to-learn information. It will be much easier to review these notes. Because your mind doesn't get bored reviewing subjects it doesn't know, rather than ones it does. Since you do a short review, your brain receives the reward earlier compared to a long review. This motivates it to review again. Okay, we've learned how to take our notes, but how should we review them? As a result of the lessons I've learned from the forgetting curve, repeating the information 5 times—on the 1st day, 2nd day, 4th day, 7th day, and 14th day—provides close to 100% long-term retention in memory. For this reason, this is my recommendation.
However, if you observe different numbers for yourself in your personal experiences, you can personalize and change them. So, our notes and strategy are clear, but how can we follow this system? How can we prevent a pile of notes and follow the system simply to do our repetitions? The answers are in the next chapter.
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Chapter 2: "Is It Possible to Take Smarter Notes and Learn Permanently?"
Yesterday we talked about the "Forgetting Curve". The secret to beating that curve is: Spaced Repetition! You only remember 50% of the information you learn on the first day. If you review it that day, this
Chapter 2: "Is It Possible to Take Smarter Notes and Learn Permanently?"
Yesterday we talked about the "Forgetting Curve". The secret to beating that curve is: Spaced Repetition! You only remember 50% of the information you learn on the first day. If you review it that day, this rate becomes 100% again, and on the 2nd day, because you reviewed on the first day, your recall percentage doesn't drop to 50%, it drops to 80%. On the 4th day, it becomes 50% again. and if you review on the 4th day, you go back up to 100%, and after 3 more days, on the 7th day, you still remember 60% of it. but if you hadn't done these reviews on the 2nd and 4th days, at the end of the first week your percentage would be less than 10%. if you do another review on the 7th day, it becomes 100% again, and after 1 week, that is 14 days from the first day, more than 90% of what you learned will still be in your mind. so, as the forgetting curve starts to fall, strategic repetition at the right intervals increases your recall percentage from the 10s to over 90%. So how long should your notes be? How can you keep track of this systematic repetition? What if you end up with a pile of flashcards, a pile of notes, like before? The answers are in the next chapter.
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Chapter 1: "Why Do You Forget What You Learn?"
We all occasionally forget the information we have learned throughout our lives. We shuttle back and forth between methods like flashcards and mind palaces, constantly trying to make the information we learn permanent. But before
Chapter 1: "Why Do You Forget What You Learn?"
We all occasionally forget the information we have learned throughout our lives. We shuttle back and forth between methods like flashcards and mind palaces, constantly trying to make the information we learn permanent. But before establishing the right strategy for permanent learning, the first question we must ask is, why do we forget in the first place?
The fundamental reason for this is actually very simple: to use resources efficiently. If we never forgot any information, our minds would constantly have to deal with issues like storage and energy. For this reason, our mind tends to keep the topics that need to be remembered in memory and delete the unnecessary ones. So, how do we tell our mind that the information we are learning at that moment is something that should be stored in long-term memory? With what strategy can we give our brain the right signal?
Of course, by targeting the forgetting curve. After we learn a topic, we begin to forget it over time, but if we recall it repeatedly at regular and strategic intervals, our mind receives the signal that this information should not be forgotten, and the percentage of recall increases with each repetition. In this way, a topic of which we would remember only 10% over time can become one where we still retain more than 90% in our memory. So, what kind of strategy can we develop to do this? In the next chapter!
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