GUIDE
How CurveMora thinks
Why you never build a card, how sources, records and repetitions sit together, and why a date you have already seen can move. The assumptions CurveMora is built on.
Forgetting is the starting point
We forget what we learn along a steep curve. Left alone, much of it becomes hard to recall within days.
But recalling something just as it fades flattens that curve and holds the memory longer. Widening the gap a little each time strengthens it further, so you remember for longer with fewer rounds.
What CurveMora does is compute those moments for each record and lay them out as a schedule. That is why the intervals widen — today, then 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 days and beyond.
No cards to build
Nothing is transcribed and nothing is rebuilt into question-and-answer cards. Register the book, video or lecture you already use, and it becomes something you can repeat.
What you add is a single line: which part of which source you worked on. The recalling itself happens in the source, by opening it again. CurveMora is responsible only for deciding when you open it.
Source → record → repetition
What you add sits in three layers: the source that started the learning, the record of a part of it you want to repeat, and the repetitions that are the individual rounds of recalling that record.
| Layer | Example | Counted in |
|---|---|---|
| Source | A statistics textbook / a conversation course / bicycle maintenance | records |
| Record | Chapter 4 exercises / Unit 4 dialogue / adjusting the brakes | records |
| Repetition | First round, second round, third… | rounds |
A record is created by its first round, and every later round hangs beneath it. Open the history on an item and the bottom entry is the initial registration, with the first round, second round and so on stacked above it. Every entry carries the same three values — confidence, importance and time spent — including the initial one. Adding and repeating are the first and later rounds of one act.
A record can be divided further. The learning item is the main part, a focus item is a piece you want to repeat on its own rhythm, and a child item breaks it down again — useful when the details and the whole deserve separate schedules.
A scheduled date is not fixed
The next date comes from that record's memory stability and the retention you are aiming for. A round you could not recall shortens the interval; one that came easily extends it.
Dates keep moving afterwards. Set a break for travel or a busy stretch and the plan gathers around it; a day that becomes too crowded is spread across nearby days within the range each repetition allows. The point is that a habit you have built does not break because life got in the way.
None of this is hidden. After saving a repetition, open “Why this date” and each rule that applied is written out, one line at a time.
See the schedule on the calendar