A daily anki habit. The habit to check my cards, but also to add new ones. It's perhaps not a skill exactly, but it feels like a superpower nonetheless. I star

A daily anki habit. The habit to check my cards, but also to add new ones. It's perhaps not a skill exactly, but it feels like a superpower nonetheless. I started creating flashcards when I began studying spanish for my wife. --- a very common introduction to flashcards is via language learning. But these days I put anything into a card that I feel is useful. It could be an actual event (like recently) with the russian attempted putsch. I might create a card like: ---- On {{c1::June 2023}}, {{c2::Yevgeny Prigozhin}} the leader of {{c3::Wagner}} group staged a rebellion by marching his troups towards Moscow after taking {{c4::Rostov-on-don}}. Within hours a treaty was brokered by {{c5::Belarus}} president {{c6::Alexander Lukashenko}} ---- these facts are all salient after reading about such an important event, in the moment. But now when I talk about this event years from now, it will spring to mind. I will also be forced to think about it from time to time, and remember the crazy (big) things that happened. I'll also use flashcards these days to study a new API, or learn a domain model in a new company. Important is to prune and actively delete cards that no longer make sense. So I suppose the skill is realizing how to use anki. It is a bit of a living entity. It's a habit/skill I've honed for over 10 years now. Some recommended reading for those wanting to add flashcards into their lives. 1. https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics 2. http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html 3. https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ 4. https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...