He makes some good points. Anki is indeed popular, so this is true too. I am using my own set of flashcards via self-written computer programs, mostly small sc

He makes some good points. Anki is indeed popular, so this is true too. I am using my own set of flashcards via self-written computer programs, mostly small scripts. The core is simple: one "side" has the question, the other "side" has the answer. I enhanced this on the commandline though, e. g. I can refer to local images (we can show this on the terminal, e. g. I use KDE konsole and then some different commandline programs to show things there. I can even show individual slides of .pdf pages via https://github.com/hzeller/timg https://github.com/hzeller/timg, which is pretty cool since I can control which pdf file to show, sometimes manipulating them before showing that). The author of that blog post at lesleylai, though, is wrong in some regards. For instance: > don’t memorize what you don’t understand I totally understand what he means, e. g. "understand it first before memorizing", and while this is in some ways true, in other ways it is not. I literally had to memorize crap knowledge in order to pass some exams. Some of it was simply boring to no ends, other things were too complicated, but in BOTH cases, being able to memorize it, helped. I may not always understand everything, but being able to connect at the least some parts, did help, just like a spider web that is built up slowly. With that I could lateron learn more, connect more and so forth. So, while I do agree that understanding is better, sometimes you can not, perhaps you lack time. Even in ALL these cases I had over the years, it still was better to be able to memorize even trivial facts. Of course eventually you have to be picky as to what knowledge you want to store in the brain, since I think it can not store infinite knowledge really (just about everyone forgets stuff eventually), but if your goal is to e. g. pass some exams quickly, then being able to quickly memorize even trivial crap, can be useful. There are a few other things I disagree with too, but for the most part I think this is a very useful blog entry. I am curious what people use else, e. g. other than anki and so forth. Or they may have other learning tricks. I always try to re-align my knowledge when it is for an important topic I care about; topics I once learned but never need again I kind of put into a "storage" preservation mode, e. g. if I ever need it again, I can look it up, but other than that I focus on what seems to be more important to me.