A lot of what I want to learn now lives on YouTube: lectures, 3blue1brown-style explainers, long technical talks. A “watch later” playlist has the same problem as a stack of unread books. It just sits there, and “watch this someday” is not a schedule. So I tried treating videos as Anki notes. I imported the videos of an educational channel (or a playlist) as cards, let Anki decide when each one surfaced, watched it when it came due, and took my notes straight onto the card. The next time the card returned, I’d try to recall what I had learnt before revealing those notes or rewatching, and notice exactly where my memory had lapsed.
The insight is that Anki here is not really storing the knowledge, it is scheduling the attention. It handles the logistics of “when do I watch this, and when do I come back to check that it stuck”, which is precisely the part I drop when left to myself. I’ve sketched this as something that could be its own app: point it at a channel or a playlist, let it import every video as a schedulable card, and let the SRS engine run the whole watch-and-review loop for you.