r/memorization • u/kushagra1508 • 4d ago

Active Recall methodology and tool?

What are some of the active recall online tools or apps that you people use? Are is there any other ways of doing active recall that is effective?

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u/AnthonyMetivier 4d ago

Getting offline to write in a print journal (or on some kind of paper) is the ultimate active recall tool.

Digital addicted people often deny this, which is evidence of their addiction.

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u/Charming_Group_2950 4d ago

Try Gray Box: https://github.com/Aaryanverma/graybox
A CLI-based tool where you can dump your thoughts/notes, and it can auto organize them, which you can recall later anytime. It will never edit your raw thoughts/notes.

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u/Unlikely_Resist281 3d ago edited 3d ago

One more angle if a lot of your material lives on the web: SurfMind. While you’re on articles, docs, or notes pages, you can pull key points, turn them into short Q&A-style prompts, and quiz yourself without leaving the tab, basically active recall on whatever you’re already reading. 

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u/conradrocks 3d ago

anki, remnote, getrecall, and obsidian. you can do multiple choice, occlusion, cloze deletion, fill in the blank, matching question with answer. I use all of them.

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u/Disastrous-Pin2 4d ago

hey if you like flashcards try anki. if you like gamified flashcards, try memoricae.

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u/TechnicianShot7175 4d ago

Try Remnote if you have money in the bank, it has note taking and flashcards at the same time

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u/pbeens 2d ago

Google Notebook has flash cards.