UseAI glossary
Spaced repetition
A method for remembering things for the long term: reviewing an idea just before you forget it, at longer and longer intervals. An AI assistant can create the questions and ask them again at the right time.
In other words
Watering a plant just as the soil starts to dry: not too early, not too late, and it lasts longer and longer between waterings.
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