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fajr i sit for new memorization. only half a page, sometimes less if my brain isn't there. then on the walk back from the masjid i revise yesterday's page out loud. after isha i do old revision, usually the last juz i finished, just reading from memory in salah or pacing my room.

what's working: doing new hifdh right after fajr. nothing competes with it yet.

what's not: my old revision is a mess. i built an app for this (i'm the founder of SABR: Quran Memorization) and even i skip it some nights. honest truth.

every time i get past juz 2 my revision starts crumbling. new memorization feels fine but going back to maintain the older stuff just keeps slipping no matter how i schedule it. been thinking about this a lot while building an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' (i'm the founder), and honestly i still haven't figured out a personal rhythm that sticks. what's actually worked for you when the pile gets bigger than what you can review in one sitting?

builder question more than anything. i'm the founder of an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' and the thing i keep hearing from users is that revision falls apart somewhere around juz 4 or 5. the old pages start slipping faster than new ones can stick.

for those of you past that point, what's your actual schedule? do you split old vs new into separate sittings, or stack them in one go? and how many old pages a day before it stops being realistic

something i keep running into personally and hearing from users while building 'SABR: Quran Memorization' (i'm the founder), people can push through new pages but the revision loop is where everything quietly falls apart. i'll have a solid week, miss two days, and suddenly the older juz feels like a stranger again. not looking for advice really, just curious what your actual revision rhythm looks like when life gets messy.

something i keep noticing from talking to users (i'm building an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' so i hear from a lot of memorizers). everyone obsesses over how fast they can memorize a new page. but the people who actually retain are the ones boring enough to revise the same juz for the 40th time without feeling like they're wasting a day. new pages feel like progress. old pages are the progress. anyone disagree?

fajr i do new memorization, usually half a page. then after dhuhr i revise the last 7 days. fridays i try to do a full juz revision but honestly half the time it turns into 3 pages and i call it. the new memorization part is fine, it's the old revision that keeps slipping. i'm the founder of an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' so i stare at revision data all day and still struggle with my own lol. what does your week look like

something i keep noticing, both in myself and from talking to users (i'm the founder of an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization'), is how easy it feels to add new pages compared to how heavy old revision becomes. like new hifz gives that dopamine hit, but going back to juz you locked in months ago feels like starting over some days. anyone here actually found a revision rhythm that sticks long term? curious what works for people past the first few ajzaa.

for the last 2 weeks i've been putting my phone across the room at night with my mushaf on top of it. that's it. when the alarm goes off i have to physically walk over, and the mushaf is already in my hand before my brain catches up. ends up giving me 10-15 mins of revision before fajr that i never used to get.

for context i'm the founder of an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization', and honestly the thing i keep noticing from users is the wins are never the big systems. it's stuff like this. what's a small physical trick that's worked for you?

question for those further along than me. when you finish memorizing a new page, what does the revision look like for the next week or two? do you keep it in daily rotation until it's solid, then move it into a longer cycle, or do you space it out from day one.

i'm building an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' and trying to figure out a sane default schedule. people i talk to are all over the place. curious what's actually worked for you long term.

every time i sit down for hifdh i feel this pull to push forward and add new ayahs, and then a week later my old revision is in shambles. i'm building an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' so i talk to a lot of huffadh about this and almost everyone says the same thing, but no one really has a clean answer. how do you actually hold the line on murajah without it killing your momentum on new memorisation?

small thing but it actually worked for me this week. before opening to revise, i try to recite the first ayah of the page from memory while the book is still closed. if i blank, i know that page needs more attention before i move on. been watching users do something similar in SABR: Quran Memorization (i'm the founder, building it full time) and figured i'd try it on my own revision. caught two pages i thought were solid but weren't. anyone else do something like this before opening the page?

salam. i'm building an app called 'SABR: Quran Memorization' and i keep going back and forth on one thing. how rigid should the revision schedule be.

right now if you miss a day, the queue piles up and you see everything waiting. some users say that's motivating. others say it crushes them and they stop opening the app.

the softer option is to quietly redistribute missed ayat across the next few days so you never see a scary backlog. but then part of me feels like that's hiding reality from the memoriser.

for those of you actively doing hifdh, which one would actually help you stick with it? honest answers welcome, even harsh ones.

salam everyone. i've been trying to find the smallest daily quran session that survives a bad day. for me lately it's been one ayah of revision and one ayah new, repeated

until fajr. curious what's worked for others — especially people with kids/work/etc.