Questions to ask to The Flashcard Guy

The Flashcard Guy is a nickname for a long term user of SuperMemo. He started using SRS in 2006 and in 2021 he opened a YouTube channel about the topic.

His personal blog about learning: SuperMemo Adventures

About

I will be compiling a public list about of the questions I would love to ask to The Flashcard Guy. I will be updating the list indefinitely and add the answers when The Flashcard Guy covers them in his videos or comments.

Personal use of SuperMemo

• How do you get to know SRS? and SuperMemo
• Did you read Piotr Wozniak writings about learning and memory before trying out SuperMemo?
• Have you used SuperMemo for school stuff, or just for free learning?
• Any regrets from decisions you have taken in the past which its effects in your collection were only long-term?
• Any regrets from decisions you have taken in the past which its effects in your learning were only long-term?

• What long-term meaningful goals did you achieved due the use of SRS?
• Do you use SuperMemo for creative domains?
  • and Incremental brainstorming?

15 old streak

• You state you always finish all the outstanding queue. Then I may guess is, in part, because you have import little volume of information? Consistent but low.
• Did you use postpone or mercy at all? Or do you do all repetitions strictly when they are scheduled?
• Will you mind sharing your stats? Basically to get a feeling of the long term use.
• DO you thing you suffer from the curse of knowledge?

Life as a SuperMemo user

• Across the 15 years of continuous use, did you tried to introduce people to SuperMemo/Incremental Reading?
  • If positive, any success on retaining them as users?
• Did you tried other SRS apps after some years after being introduced to SuperMemo? For instance Anki in 2006-08?

Speculating a different present

• How do you think you will be today, in regard of knowledge, creativity and wisdom acquired, without the use of SuperMemo?
• How do you think you will be today, relating to creativity, without the use of SuperMemo?

SuperMemo Comunity

• You said back in the day, there was just a yahoo forum. Later I guess Supermemopedia came into place.
• Were you aware the the community has grown, and that lead to
  • the SuperMemo Assistant plugins?
  • Supermemo.wiki, user-driven wiki aimed at the beginners?
  • external tools to facilitate the life of SuperMemo users, such asAHK scripts, epub builder, article parser, tutoring sessions,etc?
  • voice chat events in the Discord channel

Familiarization with SuperMemo

• Which SuperMemo version did you started using?