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I had considered using spaced repetition software for a while after a long time of being frustrated with my poor memory. I finally started using Anki last Septe
by dguo 7y ago
I had considered using spaced repetition software for a while after a long time of being frustrated with my poor memory. I finally started using Anki last September after reading Augmenting Long-term Memory[1].
I started off with just putting in a new vocabulary word every day and have been gradually ramping up the amount of info that I put into it. Now, I will add anything from programming details (e.g. how do you get the number of characters in a Rust string?) to key facts from the books I read (e.g. in The English Patient, who does the patient have an affair with?). My review sessions only take 5-10 minutes a day, and my only regret is not starting this habit earlier (especially in school). It's incredibly gratifying to review something, know the answer, and be very aware that without Anki, I would have forgotten it a long time ago.
[1]: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
- Dowwie 7y agoConsidering how many people are learning Rust, I think that Anki Rust cards could be a huge hit. What do you think?
- dguo 7y agoThat could be helpful for some, but personally, I don't use any premade decks because the act of making cards is part of the learning process.
- asymmetric 7y agoDo you use multiple decks? I found myself creating several, and then finding it hard to follow up on many of them. It’s a pity though, because some of the cards in them were interesting, but the whole deck wasn’t. Maybe I should have a “misc” one.
- dguo 7y agoI don't. Everything goes into a single deck so that my review sessions interleave[1] topics. But if you have cards that you don't find interesting or useful anymore, maybe it'd be better to just delete them. [1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-effect-mixing-it-up-boosts-learning/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-...
- mkl 7y agoDoesn't that mean you have to manually put the subject into each card? E.g. I am currently using Anki to learn more keyboard shortcuts for Bash, Tmux, and vim, and the deck tells me which program the card is talking about. I already have to put context for vim visual mode keys in those cards. Edit: Ah, just saw your other comment about doing something like it with tags.
- dguo 7y agoI still manually add context to each card. I want each card to be self-sufficient, even without any tag data.
- kayoone 7y agovery interesting, i would also like to know how you organise your decks/tags
- dguo 7y agoI use a single deck, which seems to be a commonly accepted best practice for Anki because mixing topics is good for learning. I do tag my cards. For example, if a card is "In HTML, what header should you use to make a website responsive?", I would tag it with "programming," "webdev," and "html." The organization is there, but I haven't actually found a use case for the tags yet.
- qznc 7y agoMy plan is to use tags for deleting cards. For example, when I take another job/role then lots of cards should become obsolete.