Articles

• Good sleep, good learning, good life New - all-inclusive article about quality sleep for creative people
• Roots of Genius and Creativity - analysis of what makes genius and how to achieve it
• Incremental learning New - the fastest way to lifetime rock-solid knowledge
• Natural creativity cycle New - for maximum creativity, we need to respect sleep and the creativity cycle
• Formula for success in learning - rock-solid knowledge for life -- this is possible and this is very rewarding!
• Myths of memory and learning - list of most damaging myths that may entrap an unaware student
• 20 rules of formulating knowledge in learning - to effectively formulate knowledge for active recall learning, you need to understand the difference between well-structured and ill-structured knowledge. The former is easy to remember and enjoyable, the latter is a scourge of learning!
• Incremental reading - how you can simultaneously read a great number of articles at the same time without getting lost
• SuperMemo Decalog - 10 commandments that should be obeyed to ensure success with SuperMemo
• Forget about forgetting - evolutionary, molecular and mathematical background of SuperMemo
• Building stability of memory through rehearsal
• Economics of learning (1994)
• Optimization of learning (1990)
• Polyphasic sleep - an alleged formula for less sleep and more alert waking time
• Build your vocabulary - how to use SuperMemo to build vocabulary of foreign languages
• The brain cell trainer - one of the first independent reviews of the SuperMemo method (Computer World, 1992)
• Scientific conquest of forgetful memory - this article published by Computer World in 1992 shortly describes the origins of SuperMemo and its principles
• Devouring knowledge - how to maximize the speed of acquiring new knowledge available to you in electronic form
• SleepChart: Formula for healthy sleep - simple formula for solving sleep phase problems pestering a large number of creative people (also: freeware sleep charting application for optimizing sleep)
• Goodness of knowledge - why we promote SuperMemo having no second thoughts
• Can too much learning lead to Alzheimer's? - discussion of the "memory overload hypothesis"
• Reading the Internet - this article will tell you how to effectively read, and remember articles you can find on the net
• Interview with the author of SuperMemo - 1994 interview with Dr Wozniak packed with little known or funny pieces from the history of SuperMemo
• SuperMemo is useless! - user criticism of SuperMemo and SuperMemo World's rejoinder
• Flow of knowledge in SuperMemo - how SuperMemo 99 helps you accelerate the process of introducing new knowledge into your collection
• Break free from work overload - introducing to tasklists and their implementation in SuperMemo
• A remedy for the forgetful - description of SuperMemo in plain language (Warsaw Voice)
• SuperMemo as a new tool increasing the productivity of a programmer - case study of using SuperMemo in software development (including the cost-benefit criterion of knowledge selection)
• Using templates and categories - step-by-step guide to templates and categories (Miko Hejwosz)
• Perfection reached - introduction to SuperMemo as published in German Chip in 1995
• Learn fast and forget about forgetting - a review of SuperMemo 6 for DOS published in the oldest Polish computer journal: Bajtek (1993)
• Vocabulary of a native American - what a man in the street should know about SuperMemo (Rzeczpospolita)
• Using SuperMemo without a computer - description of the original pen&pencil SuperMemo method from the mid 1980s (i.e. before the first computer implementation)
• SuperMemo in a school for special education - experience gathered when using SuperMemo in a Dutch school for children with various disabilities
• Inprise Case Study: SuperMemo implementation in Delphi - review of SuperMemo as a successful product developed in Delphi (as published by Borland/Inprise)
• History of the Universe - short history of the universe and the important role to play for the Knowledge Machine
• Polish speed-learning technology - short technical description of the first SuperMemo 7 multimedia CD-ROMs
• Yet easier ... Easy English - press review of the first cheap large-circulation multimedia partwork course for learning English in Poland: Multimedia Easy English (powered by Multimedia SuperMemo)

Sleep and learning research

• Poor sleep = Poor learning - SuperMemo 2006 and SleepChart can be used to investigate the link between sleep and learning. First glance at the data
• Submit your sleep and learning data - get a personalized report that shows how your sleep affects your learning

Economics of learning

• Table of contents - table of contents of the doctoral dissertation that laid the theoretical ground for SuperMemo 98 and its successors
• Repetition spacing: research background - introduction to theoretical aspects of spacing effect and repetition spacing (cognitive psychology approach)
• SuperMemo 6: Algorithm
• Knowledge structuring and representation - how to formulate material for learning based on active recall
• Analysis of learning data in a group of students
• Molecular mechanisms of memory
• Modern hypermedia systems - how fusion of hypermedia systems used in education with repetition spacing algorithms will change the future of hypermedia
• Knowledge Machine

Optimization of learning

• Table of contents - table of contents of the master's thesis that was the first ever publication about SuperMemo
• Introduction
• First experiments: SuperMemo on paper
• SuperMemo 2: Algorithm
• SuperMemo 4: Algorithm
• SuperMemo 5: Algorithm
• Simulation of the learning process
• Molecular basis of neuronal plasticity
• Acknowledgments

Publications

• Do intelligent students learn faster? (1998) - this article shows no correlation between student's IQ and a number of parameters of the learning process
• Two components of long-term memory (1995) - first ever text describing the existence of two components of long-term memory: retrievability and stability. This paper demonstrates the theoretical ground and implications of repetition spacing
• Building memory stability through rehearsal (2005) - some theoretical and practical implications of the two-component model of long-term memory
• Hypothetical correlates of the two components of long-term memory (1998)
• Language and technology: translation vs. education dilemma (1995)
• Publication list - the list of most important publications in reference to SuperMemo
• Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory - book review

User submissions

• How I got a job at #1 software company - in this user testimonial, you will find out how SuperMemo helped learning programming and ultimately contributed to landing a coveted job as a software developer
• It is more than just memorizing - Luis Gustavo Neves da Silva from Brazil explains why rote learning has received so much bad press and how understanding differences between data, information and knowledge could help
• SuperMemo is useless! - user criticism of SuperMemo and SuperMemo World's rejoinder
• ABC of SuperMemo 2002 - 10-year-old and 13-year-old explain SuperMemo 2002
• No force in the world can convince me to SuperMemo! - Witold Szafraniec argues against the sense of using SuperMemo
• Homeschooling - case study - Peadar Willy de Bhuinn presents an exemplary application of SuperMemo in homeschooling
• Studying law with SuperMemo