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How to Use Spaced Repetition on Your Own Notes on iPhone and iPad

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Step by step

  1. Study a page. Open a page with a sheet over it and tap each answer to reveal it after you try to recall it.

  2. Mark ○ or ×. Tap Grade and mark each answer: ○ if you knew it, × if you didn’t.

    Red Sheet’s Grade screen for marking an answer ○ or ×, and the Review screen

  3. Come back tomorrow. Open the Review tab. It has today’s review, with the answers that are due, and a round of only the answers you missed.

  4. Keep your notebooks tidy. Notebooks sit on your Library shelf by subject. Make subjects of your own and rename, recolor and reorder them.

    Red Sheet’s Library with subjects such as Social Studies, Science, English and Japanese, and notebooks below

Why it works

  • Active recall: you try to remember the answer before it is shown.
  • Spacing: answers you missed come back soon, and answers you know come back after longer gaps.
  • Your own material: you study from the pages you already made.

Other ways to do it

  • Flashcard apps use spaced repetition too, but you build the cards first.
  • A paper planner can schedule reviews, and you track them yourself.

Questions people ask

How soon does a missed answer come back?

The next day. An answer you marked × comes back the next day, and answers you know come back after longer gaps.

Can I review only what I got wrong?

Yes. The Review tab has a round of only the answers you missed, as well as today’s review.

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