What is Incrementalism? - bjsi/incremental-everything GitHub Wiki

Incremental Reading can Leverage your Learning in RemNote

Before the advent of incremental reading, you had two extreme alternatives:

traditional learning with high volume of the learning material and dismal retention. This learning can be called High In - High Out (HIHO) as high volumes of knowledge processed on the input are accompanied by equally high volumes of knowledge on the "output" (i.e. lost out to forgetting)
SRS (Spaced Repetition Softwares, like RemNote, Anki or SuperMemo) with a small volume of strategic material remembered for years with a predetermined level of knowledge retention (LILO - Low knowledge input with low forgetting outflow)

Neither alternative provides a complete solution to the problem of forgetting. The balance between the two alternatives was left to the student. The optimum strategy was to use traditional learning to sift the strategic material, and then to memorize mission-critical material with the SRS.

The confinement of SRS to strategic material was a powerful inhibitory force against their universal adoption:

The process of selecting the strategic knowledge was not automated
The student had to master knowledge structuring skills to make the memorized knowledge truly applicable
Passive review was discounted as ineffective and was not used as a knowledge prioritization tool
Accumulation of due [outstanding] material after a short break was the number one cause of users dropping SRS for good

Incremental reading bridges the worlds of traditional learning and that of SRS by providing a fluent transition between all priority levels and learning stages starting from quick review, to repeated passive review (Incremental Rems), to active recall of flashcards, ending in the active review of these flashcards in optimum intervals to ensure retention for life.

(Adapted from SuperMemo "Postpone" article)

Incremental learning might be as important [to SuperMemo] as the original repetition spacing idea. Incremental learning eliminates a number of bottlenecks that limit various stages of knowledge acquisition. (SuperMemo Incremental Learning article)