Is there much known about how to recall information you've memorised at the right time / in the right context? I can memorise pieces of knowledge just fine with Anki, and if someone asks me a question about that piece of information I can tell them the answer no problem. However, recalling in the right situation that a piece of information exists and using it -- that I'm finding much more of a challenge. I've been trying to find information on instilling information in such a way as to recall it in the right context for the last few days, but none of the avenues of inquiry I've searched have yielded anything on the level I'm wanting. Most articles I've found are talking about specific good habits, or memory, rather than their mechanisms and how to engage them.
I would try imagining being in the given situation, and then doing the thing. Then hopefully in the real situation the information would jump into my mind.
To do it Anki-style, perhaps the question card could contain a specific instruction to imagine something. So the pattern is not just "read the question, say answer, verify answer", but "read the question, imagine the situation, say answer, imagine the answer, verify answer", or something like this.
Without imagining the situation, I believe the connection will not be made in the real t...
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