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If you want to stop wasting your time, and want to learn something thoroughly and once, I would recommend learning how to use Anki effectively. It has reduced
by moosey 6y ago
If you want to stop wasting your time, and want to learn something thoroughly and once, I would recommend learning how to use Anki effectively. It has reduced the amount of time it takes to learn new things, while simultaneously allowing me to remember them for far longer periods of time. I can currently stop an online course for months, and return to the same point when I come back, with far more knowledge of the subject than I had when I left.
Anki, like using a calendar and communication tools effectively, is just pushing the burden of organization, memory and attention out of your head, and into your environment. This will not only save you time, but it will also, if set up right, give you that sense of peace of knowing that whatever you are doing is exactly where you should be.
It's solid. I learned about it in "Learning How to Learn", but the mental concept stuff is from "The Organized Mind".
- keiferski 6y ago> learning how to use Anki effectively. I made this exact comment about two weeks ago, you might find it useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855046
- moosey 6y agoIn response to that previous comment, it should be noted that by using Anki daily, you will increase blood flow and connectivity in the hippocampus region. In turn, this will increase the amount of things that you can learn in a time period. I've been able to increase my new card count and review count over time without too much drain, and I answer questions far more quickly than I did when I started. It's my daily gym activity for my brain.
- keiferski 6y agoI actually do Anki cards while at the gym, so I combine my physical and mental workouts ;)
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- hackeryogi 6y agoThank you for this - and the references to how you came across the concept. I was personally only recently introduced to anki [1] & [2] However, I tried it out but I couldn't end up using it to 'remember books' or broader concepts that the books convey indirectly. I've started summarising books and using a manual form of spaced repetition to remember them better. Do you have any advice on organising such knowledge better? [1] https://ncase.me/remember/ https://ncase.me/remember/ [2] https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learni...
- moosey 6y agoI just take handwritten notes, then convert them into carefully designed and tagged cards in Anki. Even if I forget something, searching my Anki deck will usually not just tell me the information, but what book it came from, and often which page. I'm pretty diligent about careful note collation. I've definitely gotten better since I read "The Organized Mind", a book which was so enlightening for my persona that I built more than 1000 cards to remember as many of its concepts as I could. Regardless, I'm reading my previous comment and should admit that I'm quite intense about efficiency in learning. Less so about money. I've spent a lot of time tutoring, making this an important subject to me and I get.... emotional. I apologize if my original comment seems rude. It certainly feels that way to me.
- misiti3780 6y agoI have the same system going, and i started it right after reading The Organized Mind also. What a great book! - that never really gets hyped up.