Curve Of Remembering

This program is a planner that helps users by letting them know how much of the information they most likely have forgotten about a topic/assignment over time so that they can most efficiently manage their time and priorities. This program utilizes the Ebbinghaus Curve for Memory Retention, or the "Curve of Forgetting."

One of the largest struggles students face when trying to learn just about anything is the human brain’s tendency to forget. Thus, a lot of money and effort that has gone into these students is lost when students simply forget a large portion of what they have been doing.

The dashboard shows all the different topics the user has added to review. The number beside each topic, representing the estimated percent of information you remember from that topic, will decrease on a logarithmic regression. To update all numbers to their current percentage of information, click the refresh button on the bottom left corner. To add a topic for the first time, simply click the "plus" button on the bottom right corner of the screen. Type in your topic name, and the system will automatically start calculating for you.

Clicking on each individual topic will bring forth the specifications menu. In this menu, you can view detailed statistics and perform various actions. Clicking on the arrow button will revert the screen back to the dashboard. Clicking the trash icon will delete the topic. After reviewing a topic, simply click the check button. This will reset the memory retention curve, and the decrease in forgotten information will be more gradual (as per Ebbinghaus' Study, Chapter 7).

With this program, we strive to provide students with a more efficient and reliable system that takes their memory retention into consideration so that these students will retain the valuable skills they learned for a much longer time.

This program was written with Processing 3. This useful java-based API can be downloaded here: https://processing.org/download/.

***In order for this program to function correctly, you will need to download the entire repository.