[briandarvell]

I do something a little different but only because it's simpler and doesn't really require any specific programs to use. I dump all my journals, diary entries, notes, thoughts, trivia and miscellaneous things I would like to remember into a giant text file. Then a few times a week or whenever I feel like it I ask the web to give me a random # (numbergenerator.org) and that's the line I go to in the text file and read from there. Sometimes I also just browse around the file at random and read away as well. I don't have any statistics on my retention rate of course but generally I think it helps me recall things better and amongst my family and friends people occasionally comment on my good memory and it could be this method is a part of the reason for that. I think in principle the concept is very similar to the spaced repetition method, perhaps just a bit more unstructured.