How to remember stuff?

Two words: spaced repetition.

I use Anki, sync it with AnkiWeb to my phone. As with most things the key is to make it a daily habit. I use morning coffee as a cue and reward.

Some plugins to enhance your Anki experience:

• ActivityWatch for Anki for monitoring your Anki in ActivityWatch.

• AJT Media Converter for automatically converting images and saving disk space.

• AnkiConnect allows external applications to communicate with your Anki collection.

• LPCG (Lyrics/Poetry Cloze Generator) for studying long passages of verbatim text (useful for memorising poems)

• Progress bar (Fixed by Shige) shows your reviewed cards progress.

• ReColor for styling your Anki's theme.

• Review Heatmap visualises your review history like the contribution view on GitHub.

• SwiftAnki: Quick Anki Navigation with Keyboard Shortcuts faster navigation with vim movements.

• Switch Note Type Hotkey provides shortcuts for quickly changing the note type when creating new cards.

Links

• How To Remember Anything Forever-ish by Nicky Case.

• Spaced Repetition by Gwern.

• Augmenting Long-term Memory by Michael Nielsen.

• Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge by Piotr Wozniak.

• Art of Memory - on how to learn memory techniques.