Learning workflows: Greatest evidence-based method for retaining information

Mon Feb 17 2025

TLDR: It’s spaced repetition.

mdfc (markdown-flashcards) is a wonderful command-line tool that simplifies making flashcards in simple markdown. For example:

# Fruits

## What color is an apple?

Red

## What color is a pear?

Green

Which can be run simply with mdfc fruits.md in the terminal.

mdfc gives users four options: Not remembered, Hard, Okay, and Easy, which upon selection calculates the next due date for the card by multiplying the previous interval by the difficulty level.

These specific intervals can be configured in the leitner.go file.

Give it a shot!