[JonathanFly]

According to some people (Justin Sung on YouTube is where I heard it, probably, so no idea if credible) you can influence the forgetting-curve and make Anki more effective by having more context, putting knowledge into relationships with other knowledge, etc. It's a multiplier on raw/rote space repetition.

[clbrmbr]

I have found that by adding simple etymologies I can improve my recall of Latin names for plants. The etymology connects an otherwise totally new word to existing word-concepts.

[O__________O]

Really depends on how you’re defining context, since to me there’s concepts like memory chains/ladders, which simply fit sequential memories into a visualization — then there are applications contexts, which actually mirror reality of future use.

Great example of this is topic of memory sports [1], which do use techniques that work, but are likely less useful for actual remembering real world complex information.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_sport