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If you don’t care, don’t add it to your deck. What’s that you say? You downloaded premade decks? Don’t do that! Constructing your deck yourself is an important

If you don’t care, don’t add it to your deck. What’s that you say? You downloaded premade decks? Don’t do that! Constructing your deck yourself is an important part of the learning process.

Smaug123 6y ago
(Author here.) Seconded on all counts! Ruthlessly delete cards you don't care about; make your own cards so that they reflect your own mental structures. In the article, I allude to this by talking about how people can undergo very different mental motions to obtain the same "serialised" fact like "78% of the air is nitrogen".
- wenc 6y ago
  Deleting is often recommended but it's an irreversible operation. Suspending on the other hand, takes the card out of rotation, and if at some future point one cares about the card again, it is easy to unsuspend.
bhrgunatha 6y ago
I use anki to document and remember all my emacs custom key-bindings. That might sound silly but it's easy to accumulate useful things over the years in emacs and forget about them. Emacs is vast and deep and there's a lot to learn and remember. It also serves the same purpose for key-bindings and functions in various modes and packages.
- amelius 6y ago
  Wouldn't it be easier if you could just pop up a help screen with a good search option whenever you needed to know a certain key combination?
  - DavidSJ 6y ago
    apropos-documentation (C-h d) and apropos-command (C-h a) provide some such functionality. You could also try searching for "apropos" with apropos-command to find other related commands.
  - BeetleB 6y ago
    Ha! I used flashcards to memorize a fair number of Emacs shortcuts. It's not always that easy to find - even with C-h a or C-h m, etc. But the bigger benefit is even knowing that feature X exists and there is a key combination for it. I found flash cards useful because I would get an occasional "reminder" that X exists and I should use it more often! A trivial example: flush-lines and keep-lines. I never knew these existed till I read them somewhere. I put it in my flashcards, and over time I would remember its existence and use it more and more.
    - gcoladon 6y ago
      Wow! I have tried to figure out how to grep buffers many times over the last 30 years. Now I know, thanks! And it's going right into Anki :)
- jayflux 6y ago
  > That might sound silly That’s not silly at all, a lot of people use Anki for things like that. I’ve seen a couple of premade decks but I would avoid these. When it comes to keybindings its better to make your own deck otherwise you end up learning a load of bindings you’ll never use. I like to add them as and when I need them.

If you don’t care, don’t add it to your deck. What’s that you say? You downloaded premade decks? Don’t do that! Constructing your deck yourself is an important part of the learning process.

Smaug123 6y ago

(Author here.) Seconded on all counts! Ruthlessly delete cards you don't care about; make your own cards so that they reflect your own mental structures. In the article, I allude to this by talking about how people can undergo very different mental motions to obtain the same "serialised" fact like "78% of the air is nitrogen".

wenc 6y ago
Deleting is often recommended but it's an irreversible operation. Suspending on the other hand, takes the card out of rotation, and if at some future point one cares about the card again, it is easy to unsuspend.

bhrgunatha 6y ago

I use anki to document and remember all my emacs custom key-bindings. That might sound silly but it's easy to accumulate useful things over the years in emacs and forget about them. Emacs is vast and deep and there's a lot to learn and remember. It also serves the same purpose for key-bindings and functions in various modes and packages.

amelius 6y ago
Wouldn't it be easier if you could just pop up a help screen with a good search option whenever you needed to know a certain key combination?
- DavidSJ 6y ago
  apropos-documentation (C-h d) and apropos-command (C-h a) provide some such functionality. You could also try searching for "apropos" with apropos-command to find other related commands.
- BeetleB 6y ago
  Ha! I used flashcards to memorize a fair number of Emacs shortcuts. It's not always that easy to find - even with C-h a or C-h m, etc. But the bigger benefit is even knowing that feature X exists and there is a key combination for it. I found flash cards useful because I would get an occasional "reminder" that X exists and I should use it more often! A trivial example: flush-lines and keep-lines. I never knew these existed till I read them somewhere. I put it in my flashcards, and over time I would remember its existence and use it more and more.
  - gcoladon 6y ago
    Wow! I have tried to figure out how to grep buffers many times over the last 30 years. Now I know, thanks! And it's going right into Anki :)
jayflux 6y ago
> That might sound silly That’s not silly at all, a lot of people use Anki for things like that. I’ve seen a couple of premade decks but I would avoid these. When it comes to keybindings its better to make your own deck otherwise you end up learning a load of bindings you’ll never use. I like to add them as and when I need them.