Are the tags [spaced-repetition], [flash-cards], and [memorisation] excessive?

Question

The tags spaced-repetition, flash-cards, and memorization seem very closely related, even though they aren't identical. Is it beneficial to have all three tags, or should we get rid of at least one of them?

For added fun, there's also anki, which is a specific program for spaced repetition flash cards.

Having [srs] and [spaced-repetition] seems a bit repetitive is unrelated - it dealt with the absolutely identical tags "srs" and "spaced-repetition".

Answer 1

Here is my view on what these tags stand for:

• spaced-repetition is for the technique, regardless what "technology" you use for it, paper flash cards, a digital spaced-repetition system or something else.
• flash-cards refers to either paper or digital flashcards (or flash cards). The tag is close to the previous one but not identical, because there are spaced-repetition techniques that don't rely on flash chards, such as the "gold list method".
• memorization is for any memorisation technique and is therefore not limited to spaced repetition or flash cards.

I can think of very few topics where spaced-repetition would be appropriate but flash-cards wouldn't, e.g. the "gold list method" listed above. I can't think any questions where flash-cards would be appropriate but spaced-repetition wouldn't. If forced to reduce the number of tags, I would turn flash-cards into a synonym of the broader concept spaced-repetition.

Having anki seems a bit excessive, since each of the above tags would apply to questions tagged "anki" and it is easy to search for all content about "anki" that is tagged with spaced-repetition.