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The Anki FAQ goes into the reasoning a bit: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html >Some peo

The Anki FAQ goes into the reasoning a bit: https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html https://faqs.ankiweb.net/linking-cards-together.html >Some people want to extend this link between arbitrary cards. They want to be able to tell Anki "after showing me this card, show me that card", or "don’t show me that card until I know this card well enough". This might sound like a nice idea in theory, but in practice it is not practical. >For one, unlike the sibling card case above, you would have to define all the relations yourself. Entering new notes into Anki would become a complicated process, as you’d have to search through the rest of the deck and assign relationships between the old and new material. >Secondly, remember that Anki is using an algorithm to determine when the optimum time to show you material again is. Adding constraints to card display that cause cards to display earlier or later than they were supposed to will make the spaced repetition system less effective, leading to more work than necessary, or forgotten cards. >The most effective way to use Anki is to make each note you see independent from other notes. Instead of trying to join similar words together, you’ll be better off if you can determine the differences between them. Synonyms are rarely completely interchangeable - they tend to have nuances attached, and it’s not unusual for a sentence to become strange if one synonym is replaced with another.

nmca 4y ago
This seems to boil down to "it would be more complicated", mixed with "the trivial thing is a bad idea", both of which seem true. But I can imagine a more complicated scheme could be much better; done right.
- _Algernon_ 4y ago
  I agree. It makes sense for cards which link previously learned facts to only show up once the base facts have been learned, for example. But I'm not sure how to design a good UI for it. I can easily see it as resulting in too much friction so nobody uses it.
  - s_m_t 4y ago
    Doesn't just putting the cards in order of concepts essentially accomplish this? When I was doing Anki I adjusted my new card rate so my retention rate stayed above 90%. If you do it this way then your chances of getting stuck in a certain areas of the dependency graph (if you were to model it) is pretty low. If it does end up happening then do some extra study on those concepts outside of SRS. This way you don't have to model the actual dependency graph. You really shouldn't be doing all your study in SRS anyways because so called "flashcard blindness" (i.e. only being able to recall the concepts in the context of your SRS program) is a real thing. Furthermore, in my experience, what really made Anki effective for me was to write my new cards just in time. Meaning no pre-made decks except for something like the primitives of what you are studying (i.e. symbol names, alphabets, extreme base level concepts, etc). When you write your cards just in time you can really connect the context of what you are learning to the concept. From this perspective it really seems strange to build an entire ontology based on dependency graphs of a concept you haven't even learned yet!

nmca 4y ago

This seems to boil down to "it would be more complicated", mixed with "the trivial thing is a bad idea", both of which seem true. But I can imagine a more complicated scheme could be much better; done right.

_Algernon_ 4y ago
I agree. It makes sense for cards which link previously learned facts to only show up once the base facts have been learned, for example. But I'm not sure how to design a good UI for it. I can easily see it as resulting in too much friction so nobody uses it.
- s_m_t 4y ago
  Doesn't just putting the cards in order of concepts essentially accomplish this? When I was doing Anki I adjusted my new card rate so my retention rate stayed above 90%. If you do it this way then your chances of getting stuck in a certain areas of the dependency graph (if you were to model it) is pretty low. If it does end up happening then do some extra study on those concepts outside of SRS. This way you don't have to model the actual dependency graph. You really shouldn't be doing all your study in SRS anyways because so called "flashcard blindness" (i.e. only being able to recall the concepts in the context of your SRS program) is a real thing. Furthermore, in my experience, what really made Anki effective for me was to write my new cards just in time. Meaning no pre-made decks except for something like the primitives of what you are studying (i.e. symbol names, alphabets, extreme base level concepts, etc). When you write your cards just in time you can really connect the context of what you are learning to the concept. From this perspective it really seems strange to build an entire ontology based on dependency graphs of a concept you haven't even learned yet!