Manual maps of content as form of spaced repetition

If the scheduling of spaced repetition is too much for you maybe replace it with maintaining a map of content

Maps of content (or MOCs) is a buzzword in the lore of Obsidian, the popular markdown editor and knowledge base. The concept of MOCs describes creating one or more hierarchies of notes containing links to your other notes. This is similar to a table of context or index for a book. A slight difference is that you can have as many notes as your want.

A map of content might like something like:

# Wars

* [[ World war 1]]

# World war 1

* [[Battle of the Somme]]

# Battle of the Somme

Some details about the battle

The key thing is that the notes in your maps of content are mostly about linking to other notes - though they can have a little bit of information.

One upside maintaining maps of content is that it can acts as tool to help you memorize your content through repeatedly exposing you to it.

Read more about this in this blog post.

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If you are intersted in this you might like to read my Review of note taking in Obsidian.

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