Spaced Repetition Quiz

You read articles, save quotes, save book passages — and forget most of them. Spaced repetition turns capture into long-term retention without Anki overhead. The agent picks 3 cards a day from your saved notes, prompts you, tracks how well you remember, schedules the next review. Two minutes a day, compound learning.

What it does

• Pulls from your saved memory entries (anything tagged #book, #quote, #fact, etc.)
• Each capture becomes a "card" automatically
• Daily cron picks 3 cards: a new one, a struggling one, a recently reviewed one
• Asks via Telegram in question form: "What did <book> say about <topic>?"
• Scores your answer 1-5, schedules next review accordingly (Leitner-style: easy → longer interval, hard → tomorrow)
• Weekly review: which topics are sticking, which slipping

What you'll need

• Memory with semantic search
• Cron for daily cards
• A capture habit — see Second Brain use case

Setup

1. Tag captures with the right metadata

When you save something memorable, tag it:

"#book #atomic-habits 'Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.'"

Or:

"#fact LLMs trained on next-token prediction develop emergent capabilities at scale, not via explicit programming."

Or:

"#concept 'rubber duck debugging' — explaining a problem aloud often surfaces the answer because it forces you to articulate assumptions you'd otherwise skip."

2. Tell the agent how to derive cards

3. Daily quiz cron

4. Score the answers

When I reply, the agent compares your answer to the card back:

Me: "Compound interest analogy"

Agent: "Yes — original: 'Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.' Self-rated 1-5? (5 = remembered word-for-word, 1 = had no idea)"

Me: "4"

Agent: "Box up: 3 → 4. Next review in 7 days."

If you self-rate 1-2, the card resets to box 1 (tomorrow). If you self-rate 5 and the card was already in box 6, it graduates to mastered.

5. Weekly review summary

Tips

• Self-rating is honest enough. Ratings 1-5 don't need to be precise — broad strokes "had no clue" vs "knew it cold" works.
• Don't quiz on everything. Limit cards to deliberately tagged high-value captures (#book, #concept). Quizzing on every saved URL is overload.
• Question quality matters. Auto-generated questions are decent. When one is bad ("what was discussed in this quote?" — useless), tell the agent to regenerate it.
• Streak motivation works. 30 seconds a day builds; the weekly review showing your streak is the carrot.
• Master = retire. Don't drill cards forever. Once mastered, drop. New captures replace.
• Daily 8 AM is right for most. Some people prefer evening (just before sleep helps consolidation). Test both.
• Pair with reading. When you finish a book or paper, capture 3-5 #book cards. Spaced rep turns reading from temporary input into durable knowledge.