How I Use Flashcards

I want to share my memorization techinique that has been working for me. It sounds complicated, but really isn't. I hope I can explain it well enough to be of use to someone else.
When I first started I memorized verses according to topic, but switched over to complete chapter memorization sometime early this year. The technique has worked for both strategies.

Start of with a pack of cards that will be your daily cards. Obviously you will read this pack every day. Add cards to this deck until you reach one hundred scriptures daily. When I was new to this I added two cards a day, which took fifty days. I am now up to four scriptures a day. I will probably keep this up until it gets overwhelming.

I always add my cards to the bottom of my pile so the top scriptures are the oldest. Once you reach one hundred scriptures, add your next scripture, or two. Then remove the oldest. And place them in another pile which will be your every other day pile.

For example, if you add two cards, remove the two oldest. You can use odd and even days if that helps. I mark to top of my decks: Day 1 and Day 2.

When those two decks reach one hundred scriptures each, you will then start a weekly pile. (or seven days/piles) I label those: Weekly Day 1, Weekly Day 2, etc.

I am not too far away from starting a monthly group of scriptures. I can't tell you how exciting that is going to feel.

I use Memverse to add variety to my memorization and to check my accuracy.

Unfortunately, my style requires you to keep some sort of track record, unlike memverse which does it for you. But it looks something like this.

9/13 day 1 s, day 1 s
9/14 day 2 s, day 2 r
9/15 day 1 r, day 3 s
9/16 day 2 r, day 4 r

colomn one is my every other day, and colomn two is my weekly days
s stands for scripture first
r stands for reference first

So on the days that I read scripture first I flip my deck over and basically work from the bottom up. When I discovered the reference check on memverse I didn't struggle with it too much because it's already a common practice for me.
(I don't do my daily scriptures in reverse.)

Thanks so much for sharing!! That sounds like a GREAT plan!! I'll have to try it out!

Thank you very much for sharing! I will have to try that!