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I hate to be a downer, but I found the following using anki - so basically anything with SM2 algorithm, no matter the UI - as a learning tool for my tech notes:
by tifadg1 5y ago
I hate to be a downer, but I found the following using anki - so basically anything with SM2 algorithm, no matter the UI - as a learning tool for my tech notes:
1) it doesn't scale. You'll be overwhelmed with repetitions once you're in the high hundreds, and you will be if using Q/A style questions. And what's your daily strategy once it hits thousands?
2) I've converted all my notes from libreoffice writer to anki using python and various formatting tricks, and while the import outcome was perfect, most of the notes are useless - too ambigious/too broad/WIP - you'll never remember those well.
3) premade cards are mostly useless for long term - say you want to remember linux stuffs - you can find cards with thousands of items, but to what point - there's only so much time in a day and you want to learn something different than the author did - you def won't spend a year reviewing them.
I myself am confident this problem can be solved with supermemo and creating tailored q/a from my notes and thinking hard what I actually want to remember long term.
- SunghoYahng 5y agoWhat you say is pointless, because Note Garden was created to solve those problems.
- tifadg1 5y agoQuite a rude response as these are just observations from someone who invested a lot of time into this niche.
- SunghoYahng 5y agoSorry for leaving a rude reply. I had no intention of being rude. But you're talking about Anki, not Note Garden, and the shortcomings of Anki you mentioned are what we've been trying to overcome so far.
- medntech 5y agoThey have quite a few other rude, dismissive responses on this thread. Turned me away from their product.
- SunghoYahng 5y agoMaybe I'm being rude, but if you miss the chance to use Note Garden for that reason, I'll call you an idiot.
- tdhz77 5y agoI’m an idiot that isn’t going to use your product because I decide what to use based on more calculations than just if the product is good. I also consider license, philosophy and politics. Telling people they are idiots is not a good sales pitch. You should walk away from this thread.
- SunghoYahng 5y agoI'm sorry then... I withdraw my words Would you please try the app out...?
- eyeball 5y agoSalesman of the year award goes to ….
- scriptproof 5y agoI tried the software and then when I opened an app the screen became full of windows. Never seen that before. I have to stop the computer. So I desinstalled it. That seem a good reason to not use it to me.
- SunghoYahng 5y agoNote Garden solves those problems by exploiting the tree structure and properly connecting it to SR algorithm. In fact, Note Garden doesn't even use a Q/A style.
- 1123581321 5y agoAnki does scale. It won’t ask a new user to review too many cards per day. As cards are memorized the increasingly spaced intervals make room for new cards. So if you dump a thousand cards in at once, which you shouldn’t do, you’ll be directed to load them into the memorization process over several weeks of daily reviewing. Agree that most notes from other documents don’t make good cards. Making your own cards is worth the time spent, for the most part, although there are plenty of standard decks you might as well clone (Greek letters, as a simple example.)
- kiba 5y agoIf I remember correctly, the default is 20 new cards a day which is IMO still too much. Anyway, Anki scale in the sense that you don't have to do thousand cards if you don't want to. But the UI was designed to help combat psychological problems of tackling an intimidating amount of cards.
- intarga 5y agoAs for (1), one of my decks has ~10,000 mature cards currently gives me ~3-5 reviews per day. If you plan on sustaining dozens of new cards per day indefinitely, you’ll bury yourself in reviews, but spaced repetition does ensure that if your recall rate is high, review count degrades over time, and eventually becomes negligible. I go through periods of daily new cards when I’m focused on learning something, and periods of review and consolidation. If my daily reviews get over 200, it’s time to let the new cards rest for a while.
- cehrlich 5y agoI'm at thousands of cards my main Anki deck. Since starting it, I added 10 new cards most days. My daily reviews are usually around 100. Granted it's a vocabulary deck for language learning so I just pass most cards in a few seconds based on knowing the word. For fields/types of cards that take longer I'd suggest scaling down the new cards per day accordingly. There are definitely many things that Anki is _not_ good for. But for the things where it's good, there's nothing else like it. The UI might be stale, but this is outweighed by the add-on ecosystem.