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I have been using spaced repetition for roughly 3 years and have seen some amazing personal growth. I was born in the US, and have now learned 2 languages (Ita

I have been using spaced repetition for roughly 3 years and have seen some amazing personal growth. I was born in the US, and have now learned 2 languages (Italian B2/C1, French B1/B2, and I just started Spanish but it is so similar to italian its gonna be pretty easy to pick up ). I remember almost every book I have read in the past three years by using kindle highlights and turning them into flash- cards. I use it for Math, Computer Science, papers, new english vocabulary etc. Starting using Polar Bookshelf for IR Some general thoughts: 1. Anki is pretty complicate, it is really important to read the manual 2. Create all cards yourself. If possible, always include sounds and images. 3. Follow these steps when creating cards: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20rules https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru... 4. Do your reviews every day I'm actually looking forward to seeing what is possible in say 5-10 years, after i have read 250-700 more books and studied a few more languages. It is the single best learning hack i have ever come across.

rockdiesel 7y ago
Can you give an example or two of how you effectively turn your Kindle highlights into flash cards?
- misiti3780 7y ago
  Here is an example from The Black Swan (cloze deletion) {{c1::The Platonic fold}} is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced. Here is a basic card I read and decide if this is info I have forgotten or if I knew about this: “We had observed a real-estate transaction that takes place each night when we sleep. Fitting the notion of a long-wave radio signal that carries information across large geographical distances, the slow brainwaves of deep NREM had served as a courier service, transporting memory packets from a temporary storage hold (hippocampus) to a more secure, permanent home (the cortex). In doing so, sleep had helped future-proof those memories.” Excerpt From: Matthew Walker. “Why We Sleep.” iBooks.
AlchemistCamp 7y ago
Did you make phonics decks to help you when you were getting started with the languages? I did that with Vietnamese and found it helped a lot in getting over the initial hump while I was visiting.
- misiti3780 7y ago
  I used the fluent forever pronunciation trainers, there are a lot of them but he did not make them in every language.
  - AlchemistCamp 7y ago
    I interviewed Gabriel a couple years ago back when he was first really getting into Japanese. His pronunciation trainers are great! They're the very first Anki decks I'd reach for (or create) when starting on a new language.

rockdiesel 7y ago

Can you give an example or two of how you effectively turn your Kindle highlights into flash cards?

misiti3780 7y ago
Here is an example from The Black Swan (cloze deletion) {{c1::The Platonic fold}} is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced. Here is a basic card I read and decide if this is info I have forgotten or if I knew about this: “We had observed a real-estate transaction that takes place each night when we sleep. Fitting the notion of a long-wave radio signal that carries information across large geographical distances, the slow brainwaves of deep NREM had served as a courier service, transporting memory packets from a temporary storage hold (hippocampus) to a more secure, permanent home (the cortex). In doing so, sleep had helped future-proof those memories.” Excerpt From: Matthew Walker. “Why We Sleep.” iBooks.

AlchemistCamp 7y ago

Did you make phonics decks to help you when you were getting started with the languages? I did that with Vietnamese and found it helped a lot in getting over the initial hump while I was visiting.

misiti3780 7y ago
I used the fluent forever pronunciation trainers, there are a lot of them but he did not make them in every language.
- AlchemistCamp 7y ago
  I interviewed Gabriel a couple years ago back when he was first really getting into Japanese. His pronunciation trainers are great! They're the very first Anki decks I'd reach for (or create) when starting on a new language.