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Memoization cards! Good for driving snippets of information through short-term memory, medium-term, and into long-term.

Cut up cardboard pieces roughly credit card sized.

On each write a cue on one side e.g. “Anatomical name of funny bone”, and answer on other side e.g. “ulnar nerve”.

Keep them in stacks of “hourly”, “daily”, “weekly”, “monthly”.

Every hour, go through the hourly pile one by one and try to answer it, then flip and check. If correct, move to daily pile.

Every day, go through daily pile. Correct go to “weekly”, incorrect go back to “hourly”.

Etc for the other piles

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Galapagon@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So like… AnkiDroid

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- mononomi@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ankidroid is the best memory cards app for sure!
  
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Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yup, flashcards and spaced repitition are pretty well evidenced for memorisation. I’m also a fan of mind maps, but that’s more for linking ideas and concepts together, not just learning acronyms, but mixing the two works well.

There are other memorisation techniques that you might find helpful depending on how keen you are (visualisation, methods of loci, etc) but for most people they feel like to much trouble to learn. Creating mnemonics and associating stupid images and stuff with otherwise arbitary acronyms can help. I can still remember all my physics equations from high-school QIT PIV etc because of stupid nonsense phrases I associated with them.

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Today@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is the way. I just bought a study guide for a test prep and it came with flash cards and instructions to separate them by daily (don’t know) and 3x/wk (kinda know). Choose something you like to do- watch a show, have a snack, browse social media, etc., and do the cards before you do the things.

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