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>if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck I disagree with this. Anki's power comes from spaced repetition. Spending your time creati
by atahanacar 3y ago
>if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck
I disagree with this. Anki's power comes from spaced repetition. Spending your time creating cards instead of actually reviewing the material is very inefficient. If high quality decks exist for the topic you're learning, use them instead. I've learned this the hard way.
Fields like medicine and language learning (you will still need to create your own deck for sentence mining but that's different as it's not a time sink) have great decks. For actual "niche" topics though, creating your own decks is your only choice.
For people who are going to create their own decks: check the Anking deck to see how to create "great" cards.
- BeetleB 3y agoIt's great when high quality decks exist, but I doubt they do for what I use it for. Also, even when they do exist, chances are still high you'll find pieces of knowledge missing, and will have to create your own card.
- poirot2 3y agoI disagree with this strongly. Isolated individual facts don’t give you an overview or macro-structure to place the facts within. It’s very inefficient. Can only speak for medicine but using another persons deck is ‘quicker’ but performance is so much worse. Even in just learning how to summarise the info for yourself you gain a lot.
- atahanacar 3y agoI am also speaking from experience with medicine, there is no way I can create cards as good as Anking's and still have time left to actually study/review.
- jamager 3y agoNot at all, see f. ex.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect
- atahanacar 3y agoYou aren't generating the information though. You're learning it from an existing source.