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- The plan
- When I learn something I want to keep, I'll put a note in my calendar to try recalling it later in the week.
- How you'll know
- You tried to recall it before rereading it.
Why
Spacing sessions apart helped people remember for longer, and the longer you need to remember, the wider the best gap Cepeda and colleagues, 2006.
If it doesn't fit
Tell someone about it over dinner a few days later.
Sources for this page
Cepeda and colleagues (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: a review and quantitative synthesis.
Pooled analysis of many studies, 317 experiments: an average across studies; only as good as the studies inside.
What we use: Spacing study sessions apart helps people remember longer; the longer you need to remember, the wider the best gap.
Checked Oct 11, 2026 · https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354 · DOI 10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354 · PubMed 16719566