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No. As a med student who uses Anki for basically everything, this is plain wrong. The time spent on making cards is better spent on studying. Premade cards (Ank
by atahanacar 4y ago
No. As a med student who uses Anki for basically everything, this is plain wrong. The time spent on making cards is better spent on studying. Premade cards (Anking in this case) have relevant pages from multiple sources, relevant histology/gross photos and additional notes for every card, and all cards are tagged with their corresponding chapters in multiple textbooks. If I spent time trying to do something similar (and even without the tags) I'd have no time left to actually study.
The only use case I can think of where making cards yourself would be better is sentence mining while learning a language, because these cards depend on context and creation doesn't take more than a few seconds even when adding images.
- SpaceManNabs 4y agoyes if you are trying to memorize facts and reference material and maybe even language, then yes, using premade cards are probably chill. especially if all the material is standard. if you are reading abstract stuff or more novel stuff that people are still understanding, then your own breakdown and understanding used to make cards is incredibly more helpful. If i was learning differential calculus, someone's analogies and metaphors of cards would not be understandable to me at all. i have to admit i added my own bias here so thank you for expanding.
- atahanacar 4y ago>i have to admit i added my own bias here so thank you for expanding. Same here, thank you. I don't know much about other topics. I use Anki for med school and language learning, both of which have great premade decks. But I think I can see now why creating your own decks can be more useful for abstract stuff. Kind of like that memorization method where you create stories related to things you are trying to memorize. It only works when you are the one who created the story.
- _dain_ 4y ago>Premade cards (Anking in this case) have relevant pages from multiple sources, relevant histology/gross photos and additional notes for every card, and all cards are tagged with their corresponding chapters in multiple textbooks. Most premade decks are nowhere near as good as the medical school ones.
- MichaelNolan 4y agoMed school is a bit of an outlier, because they have high quality shared decks. Most subjects have very low quality shared decks. I don’t think any other subject at all has a shared deck that’s of similar quality to what AnKing provides for the medical community. Geography/maps have some good shared decks as well.
- atahanacar 4y agoI don't know about other subjects, so I can't comment on that. I use Anki for med school and language learning, and both have high quality decks. I guess I'm lucky.
- cpburns2009 4y agoMy wife gave up trying to use Anki in med school because it worked against her. There's no way to go through a whole deck in one sitting. Anki might be useful for a few light cards every day but it's useless for the long study sessions demanded by med school.
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- all2 4y agoYou can adjust the number of cards that get pulled into a given review session. You can also do multiple review sessions. I'm confused as to the problem here. I will admit, reasoning through options is very much harder when you're under a lot of stress.
- cpburns2009 4y agoThe problem is you can't go through a whole deck like you can with real flashcards. It becomes a lottery as to what cards you might get. You don't know what cards you didn't see. This was the biggest frustration my wife experienced trying to use it.
- atahanacar 4y ago>The problem is you can't go through a whole deck like you can with real flashcards. You definitely can, just not in a single day which is not something you should do. Anki takes commitment.
- all2 4y agoFor med students, you need to be able to hit a whole deck in a day. There's too much information to ingest to not do that.
- firsttimebigboy 4y ago