Best Spaced Repetition for Designers

What Spaced Repetition actually asks of you

Memory follows the review schedule, not the time spent — each retrieval pushes the next review further out.

Notes become questions with honest answers: what you can't recall gets shortened intervals, what you can gets longer ones. Ten minutes a day on schedule beats an hour of rereading whenever panic strikes.

How designers put it to work

1. 1

   Critique with its context

   Feedback lands captured next to the frame it refers to — including the feedback that contradicted last week's. Design rationale lives in the record, not in the designer's memory of the meeting.

2. 2

   A pattern shelf, not a moodboard pile

   Inspiration is stored by the problem it solved — empty states, pricing pages, onboarding — so the shelf answers a brief, not just a vibe. Sources stay attached for when the client asks where it came from.

3. 3

   The dropped-direction log

   When a direction dies, the reason is captured next to the work. Six months later, when someone suggests the same direction, the link answers before the meeting does.

The capture habit, the linking, and the retrieval are the parts tentus automates — spaced repetition without the daily upkeep.

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