# Tips – KYW

Nine small habits that make memory stick.

_https://keepyourwords.org/en/about/lifehacks_

- **How to share words** – build a pack and send the link: whoever opens it sees the words together with the text and takes them in one press, even without an account. The file is still there too – a pack exports as a single JSON.

- **Turn off autocorrect on your phone** – it substitutes its own guesses and breaks the answer check.

- **Tune your daily new-word count** – it should be more than you can produce in a single round, but not so much that each cycle leaves you learning a couple of words from scratch.

- **Show up every day, even 5 minutes** – the schedule lives on regularity.

- **Answer honestly** – Again / Hard / Good / Easy is fuel for the algorithm, not self-esteem.

- **Type the word even if unsure** – active recall cements memory far better than peeking.

- **A typo isn’t a fail** – KYW tells it from not knowing and highlights where you slipped. If you feel you do know the word, give it a higher grade than suggested.

- **Difficult words under the lens** – if a word keeps failing, invent an image or association. A common cause is a poor definition, or one too close to another word in your list – such a card is easier to rewrite.

- **Learn from the keyboard** – ⏎ answer, 1–4 grade, ⌘Z undo – it is noticeably faster and more comfortable.