Super memo returns

So, I managed to graduate from high school with honors (surprisingly) . The coffee experiment failed when I realized that I crash approximately 30 minutes after drinking a cup. I usually feel like trash for the next six hours afterwards. I decided to find a more healthy hobby. Music is my life, So I can't really count that as a hobby. At the very beginning of the semester I remembered a program That I had played with in high school called SuperMemo. It is a program that is supposed to help you remember things. This article is really cool. I wound up with a really hardcore religion class my first semester of college. The professor would stand in front of the class and just dump information on us for fifty minutes straight. It was downright annoying. The bible is something that I am interested in, so I was able to pay attention. In my quest for young and stupid ways to live life I decided to try supermemo out. I generally wrote two to four pages of notes every day. When I had the chance, I would insert the notes into supermemo. I used Supermemo on the notecard principle. I would put a question on one part of the note card and the answer on the other. This is called formulating knowledge. There are very specific instructions on how to do this on the supermemo website. I did this before every test and managed to make an A on each of them. You might ask how this is different from just make standard notecards. To tell you the truth, the way i did it was not much different. However, reviewing the notecards is where supermemo really shines. Supermemo uses an algorthym to calculate when you will forget your notecards. supermemo only reviews the notecards just as you are forgetting them. This is a bit more efficient than reviewing all of your notecards everyday. The downside of this is that you have to study every day. By the end of the semester, I had 1050 notecards in the program. However, towards the end of the semester I only was reviewing about 16 notecards per day. Supermemo was only this took me about 8 minutes. The night before the final I decided to randomly review my entire collection. To my surprise, I knew around 95% of my cards. Supermemo had worked. I still remembered cards that i had made at the beginning of the semester because supermemo had been systematically reviewing them. I ended up making an A for the semester in the hardest class that I had ever taken. Supermemo is a good product. But it is not super intuitive. In order to be able to use it most efficiently, you have to read the instructions and use it every day.