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> retaining lots of disconnected facts has never really been something I've needed to solve for. At in regards to Anki usage, the “disconnected facts” seem to
by MichaelNolan 3y ago
> retaining lots of disconnected facts has never really been something I've needed to solve for.
At in regards to Anki usage, the “disconnected facts” seem to be something that only students (high school/college) or people new to Anki do. These people are very much using Anki for a short term goal like passing a test or class. For that use case, “disconnected facts” works just fine.
The people who use Anki (long term) outside of school and outside of 2nd language learning usually have much more connected webs of cards. While the individual cards are usually atomic, they might have a dozen or more cards all attacking a concept from different angles. Also in this usecase it seems just the act of formulating the questions is the biggest part of the learning. The reviewing part is almost secondary.
- jameshart 3y agoIf I've looked at a concept enough to write cards attacking it from different angles... why would I need to see those cards again? At that point I know that concept.
- somsak2 3y agoUnfortunately, knowledge decays over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
- jameshart 3y agoThat is indeed what advocates of spaced repetition say. Personally I find that knowledge that’s internalized and used does not decay. And devoting effort to refreshing the DRAM for knowledge I’m not using seems like it fails the YAGNI test. Let my brain’s cache eviction algorithm do its thing. If I learned something once I figure I can probably learn it again.
- mecha_ghidorah 3y ago> and used Surely using it is a repetition of it, essentially? I always figured spaced repetition was a tool or help with knowledge you didn't have opportunity to apply otherwise
- rolisz 3y agoOne of my use cases is to memorize function names that I use about once a month - not often enough to memorize them from usage only, but frequently enough that the gains from not having to Google their name every time are worth it.