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As another commenter below notes, a recommendation is to spend one second reviewing each card. Thus, your cards are generally quite simple. This can very easily
by reubens 7y ago
As another commenter below notes, a recommendation is to spend one second reviewing each card. Thus, your cards are generally quite simple. This can very easily lead to a patchwork of simple details, but no glue holding them together. I’ve come to believe that the mental effort it takes to understand something should be prioritised over memorisation. If you’re relatively busy and spending a lot of time doing Anki cards, you may be limiting your opportunities for this kind of challenge.
- goerz 7y agoI don't see why cards need to be quite that simple. I generally take about 10-15 seconds for reviewing each card. A lot of my cards are why/how/what questions (typical examples: "Why are bras covariant?"/"How are Green's functions used in solving linear differential equations?"/"What is Q-Learning?") The problem with skipping memorization of concepts after having understood something is that two months later, you'll have forgotten those concepts. So, all that effort will have been in vain. I typically don't create much more than 10 cards a day, or maybe 20 on a day where I'm taking in a lot of information, and I typically have less than 50 cards to review. It's really not a huge time investment - especially if you're "busy".
- emilga 7y ago> The problem with skipping memorization of concepts after having understood something is that two months later, you'll have forgotten those concepts. The key realization, for me, is that conceptual understanding, intuitions, and key insights are themselves just pieces of information that can be memorized. E.g.: Q: How to derive Bayes' Theorem? A: Write P(A and B) two different ways.