for the overachiever who crams and forgets a week later
Goal
Set up a 7-day spaced-review loop so last week's hard-won skills stop decaying.
Source principle
Retention: schedule spaced reviews to outrun the forgetting curve. : from Ultralearning by Scott Young.
The plan
- 🗂️Sun (Setup)Extract last week's key items into a review deck. Real cards.
- 📅Sun (Plan)Schedule Day-1 / Day-3 / Day-7 review slots. Real dates.
- 🧊Mon AMDay-1 review: cold recall first, then check. Mark misses.
- ✂️Mon PMPrune items you got cold 3x. They've graduated.
- 🪶Tue PMLight pass: skim the misses only. No re-learning.
- 🧊Wed PMDay-3 review: cold recall, then check. Same loop.
- 📊Thu PMScore Day-3. How many survived cold?
- 🪶Fri PMLight pass on Day-3 misses. Same as Tue.
- 🧊Sat AMDay-7 review: cold recall, then check. Same loop.
- 📊Sun (Score)Score the week. How many items survived all three reviews?
- 🎓Sun (Graduate)Decide which items graduate to monthly review. Just the survivors.