Spaced-Repetition on SQP Dev

Pushing the Vault to TickTick — Closing the Loop Between Obsidian and Task Management

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The vault knows everything. It has the lesson schedule, the practice sessions, the quiz material. TickTick is where the day actually runs — it sits in the calendar, it sends reminders, it blocks time. For a while those two lived separately, and any reschedule meant updating both by hand.

Today that gap is closed.

The Problem

Obsidian is the source of truth for the learning plan. But TickTick is what I actually look at during the day. When a lesson moved, I’d update the calendar note in Obsidian and then forget to touch TickTick. Or update TickTick and leave the vault behind. Either way, something was always out of sync.

Building an AI-Powered Quiz Into the Learning Loop

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Answering questions in your own words is good for learning. Answering them by clicking a button is better than not answering them at all.

That sounds like a low bar, but it’s actually the insight that shaped the quiz system. At 20:00 after a full day I’m not going to write paragraphs about container networking from memory. But I will click through ten multiple choice questions if the friction is low enough and the questions are good.

Structuring the Vault Around a Real Learning Plan

Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Once the task manager question was settled, I could focus on what the vault actually needed to contain.

The goal was simple: every Docker and Kubernetes lesson should have a home in the vault before I watch it, a note created during it, and a review scheduled after it. No manual steps, no decisions to make in the moment.

The Learning Plan Structure

The Udemy course has 26 lessons spread across Docker and Kubernetes. I mapped them to a 5-week calendar: two sessions per day this week at 09:30 and 11:00, then one session per day at 06:35 from June onwards when I shift to an earlier schedule.