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🗂️Cue-Card Spaced Stack

Make It StickHabit Beginners · Habit Start · WeeklyMedium

for the ones building their first daily recall habit

Goal

Stand up a 7-day flashcard stack with one short daily recall window you can actually keep.

Source principle

Spaced repetition paired with retrieval: short daily recall windows on a small, growing stack beat heroic weekend marathons. : from Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger & McDaniel.

The plan

  1. ✍️
    Mon
    Write 10 cue cards from current material. Question on front, answer on back.
  2. ➕
    Tue
    Recall the 10 + add 5 new ones. 15 total.
  3. 📈
    Wed
    Recall all 15 + add 5 new ones. 20 total.
  4. ✂️
    Thu
    Split into 'easy' / 'again' piles. Be honest.
  5. 🎯
    Fri
    Recall the 'again' pile only. Skip the easy ones today.
  6. 🔀
    Sat
    Full stack recall. All 20 cards, shuffled.
  7. 🗑️
    Sun
    Retire any card you got cold 3× this week. The stack is now yours.
  8. ⏱️
    Daily
    5-min queue check: any cards due today? Fire their recall window.
  9. 🎁
    Daily
    After each recall window: small treat (tea, music, walk). Reward earned.
  10. 📊
    End of week
    Count cards in each pile. Adjust the cadence for next week.

Reward

A small daily treat after each recall window closes (tea, music, walk).

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