Hello! Long time no see!
Here are the notable updates for 2023:
ChatGPT and Dall-E: ChatGPT (and other similar AI tools) have been extremely useful at summarizing information and topics that would usually require a great deal of Incremental Reading to arrive at. Asking ChatGPT to summarize a topic and give you single sentences that cover the basics of an idea is SO useful when learning about a new subject, as those sentences can easily be put into SuperMemo. Also, Dall-E has CHANGED THE GAME when it comes to creating mnemonics to remember things. Instead of coming up with elaborate stories, Dall-E can quickly create a visual that sticks SO EASILY in the mind. It has invalidated many many hours of work I have done in the past to come up with a "mnemonic alphabet" of ideas using existing fictitious characters; it works SO MUCH BETTER, so I'm very happy to discard my previous methods.
For the last couple of years I have been working on a book that covers my SuperMemo journey as well as almost every useful productivity "lifehack" that I have found useful for the last 10 years or so. It is mostly completed, but I'm not sure how to release it. Should I record myself reading it and release it as an audio book on YouTube? That is probably how I would like to consume it if I were on the receiving end of it. The only parts of the book that need to be firmed up are about AI (Want to make sure they work long term as well as they seem).
Other than those two things, my life has been pretty unchanged and my SuperMemo habits remain the same. I am on day 6,525 of doing my daily flashcards, and I still love it!
Unrelated note: a game called Bomb Rush Cyberfunk was released, and it's a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio! I was not a very good student and spent a lot of my time in middle school playing the Sega Dreamcast. Needless to say, this game is fantastic has hit the nostalgia bone HARD! They even use some of the same music samples for their soundtrack (Along with Hideki Naganuma contributing a couple of tracks)! Here is a sample:
