Incremental Everything

A RemNote plugin which allows you to interleave your flashcard reviews with notes, paragraphs from books, websites, video snippets and more! Heavily inspired by SuperMemo's Incremental Reading mode.

Features

Incremental Reading: Read and review 1000s of notes, books and websites in parallel. Learn more.
Incremental Writing: Write your essays and blog posts incrementally to maximize creativity. Learn more.
Incremental Video: Watch and take notes on your YouTube video backlog.
Incremental Tasks: Clear out your tasklist between flashcard reviews.
Incremental Exercises: Spread out textbook exercises over time.
Plugin support: Any RemNote plugin widget can easily integrate with Incremental Everything!

Installation

Open the RemNote plugin store, search for "Incremental Everything" and install the plugin.
Note that the plugin is temporarily disabled on mobile until I have time to fix some bugs.

Usage

Create Incremental Rem

Tag a Rem with the Incremental tag using the /Incremental Everything command.
Turn a PDF/website highlight into an incremental Rem by clicking on the highlight and clicking the puzzle piece icon.
You can also create a new row in a table created from the Incremental tag.
You can use the shortcut alt/opt+x to create an incremental Rem.
You can use the shortcut alt/opt+shift+x to create an incremental Rem and open the priority menu.

Disable Incremental Rem

If you are done reviewing an incremental Rem and do not wish to see it anymore, you can disable it by removing the Incremental tag.

Review

The plugin automatically interleaves incremental Rem between your regular flashcard reviews.
All of RemNote's practice modes ("Practice with SRS", "Practice All" and "Practice in Order") should work as expected.
- Note that "Practice in Order" won't order the incremental Rem with flashcards. The flashcards and incremental Rem will get interleaved together.
In "Practice with SRS" and "Practice All" modes Rem are sorted by priority. In "Practice in Order" mode they are sorted by their order in the document.
Inside the queue, you can control how many incremental Rem you want to see and how they are sorted using the Sorting Criteria button in the queue menu.

Incremental Reading

You can tag PDFs, websites and highlights with the Incremental tag to do classic SuperMemo-style incremental reading.
It will work if you tag the PDF or website itself, or a Rem with a single PDF or website as a source.
The plugin will render the PDF or website reader view inside the queue.
If you want to turn a highlight into an incremental Rem, click on the highlight and click the puzzle piece icon (I need to add proper shortcuts still!)

Incremental Writing

You can tag any normal Rem with the Incremental tag to turn it into an incremental Rem.
The plugin will render it as a normal Rem in the document view in the queue.

Incremental Video

You can tag YouTube videos with the Incremental tag to watch them incrementally.
It will work if you tag the link Rem itself, or a Rem with the YouTube link as a source.
The plugin will automatically save your progress and playback rate.
You can open the resizable notes section on the left to take notes while you watch.

Incremental Mathematics

A quick example of plugin interoperability.
Integrates with my Lean theorem prover plugin to schedule math proof problem sets over time.
The Lean plugin provides the queue widget and the Incremental Everything plugin provides the scheduling.
I hope other devs can build similar integrations with their plugins!

Subset Review

You can do basic subset reviews by studying a particular document. Only Rem from that document will be shown to you.
You can also create a table from the Incremental tag and filter it down to a sorted subset using the table filter and sort features.
You can review the rows of a table in order by sorting the table and using the "Practice in Order" practice mode.

There are lots of ways you can filter the table to create a subset of Rem to review. Here are some examples:

Only Web extracts

Only YouTube videos

Prioritization

You can use the /Prioritize command to set the priority of an incremental Rem or change it using RemNote's tables and properties features.
The plugin will prioritize Rem with a lower priority over Rem with a higher priority. So 0 is for your most important material and 100 is for the least important.
You can set the balance between priority sorting and randomness using the Sorting Criteria menu button in the queue.

Scheduling

The plugin uses an extremely simple scheduling algorithm: const newInterval = Math.ceil(multiplier ** Math.max(repHistory.length, 1)); where the multiplier is 1.5 by default.
We can add custom scheduling algorithms in the future if there is demand for it.
Note that you can manually set the next repetition date using RemNote's tables and properties features.

Development Details

The plugin stores repetition data as powerup properties on the Rem. So these aren't "normal" RemNote flashcards. All of the scheduling is managed internally by the plugin.
Let me know if you want to help develop the plugin! Join the RemNote Discord and message me (Jamesb)!

How to Develop

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/bjsi/incremental-everything
cd incremental-everything
npm i
npm run dev

Then follow this part of the quick start guide to get the plugin running in RemNote.

bjsi / incremental-everything