How The Yak Tack Algorithm Helps You Remember Words

Written by yaktack | Published 2021/04/30
Tech Story Tags: yak-tack | memory | spaced-repetition | ebbinghaus | leitner | forgetting-curve | fibonacci | good-company

TLDR The Yak Tack app is a simple app that helps people remember words. It's based on the Fibonacci Sequence, which starts as 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34. With each successful test, the repetition interval expands, and with each unsuccessful test, we tighten the interval. We reduced the tack duration from 34 to 13 days, and we test people more frequently than we used to. The algorithm is based on Sebastian Leitner’s system, which was developed in the 1970s. It gives us the adaptation we were looking for.via the TL;DR App

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Written by yaktack | We're a simple app that helps people remember words.
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/04/30