July 13, 2018 ❖ Tags: writeup, emacs, practices, lisp, math
Recently, I read Michael Nielsen's essay, "Augmenting Cognition". It talks about some very interesting use cases for the spaced repetition software "Anki" that made me want to try it out again. I'm familiar with Anki, as I used it extensively throughout my last year of high school to study for AP exams. At the time, Anki's "killer feature" for me over similar software was being able to typeset mathematical notation in LaTeX (the exams were Chemistry and Calculus, so almost all of the material to memorize was mathematical notation). It's a great piece of software; I've been using it with the brother I'm helping through summer school. But ever since I began using Gentoo, I've been trying to avoid packages like QtWebView, which has deterred me from installing Anki on my machine. With a little bit of searching, however, I found that there was an Emacs package for spaced repetition named 'org-drill', so I decided to check it out.