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Using Anki to remember what you read

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Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by ravitation »

dangus wrote: post #106

I just...can’t relate to living this way. Maybe you have to be a special type of person, but this whole lifestyle just seems exhausting and over-managed.

As a recently relapsed biochemistry student, with a wide variety of classes in both biology and chemistry, I use Anki exhaustively. I made at least 10k cards last semester, and that was a relatively light semester in terms of credits.

With that said, I can't imagine using such a powerful, and honestly demanding, tool for everyday knowledge and tangential facts (e.g. Greek mythology as a software engineer). It strikes me as far too much tool for the job.

It seems to me that, if you struggle with retaining things you read, some simple, lightweight note taking strategies, especially handwritten, would be sufficient. I believe that's actually a recommendation that his book recommendation, Where Good Ideas Come From, makes.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by pergadad »

motohagiography wrote: post #73
inetsee wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the mobile app is limited to just studying. Creating new cards and downloading shared decks must be done using either the desktop app or the web app.

It must be copyrighted or have some other broken dis-economy, because the most obvious product decisions that would make this huge have been rejected. The whole point of this is to study in spare moments, like on public transit - using mobile. Uninstalled. That's so disappointing because it's so obvious, and I can't trust an ecosystem that dumb. I didn't think it was possible to be as disappointed in an app as I am w…

Looking at the thread here most seem to have a positive experience with Anki and your excessively negative reaction is a bit strange.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by southphillyman »

I use it for interview prep. I know some people advise against memorizing stuff in programming but it's been effective for me so far. You can spend 3-5 minutes in an interview trying to reason about implementing the partition method of a quicksort or translating 2D array indexes into 1d. With anki you can just regurgitate it out of your deep memory in 30 seconds whether you use it in your day to day or not.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by koolba »

dangus wrote: post #106

I just...can’t relate to living this way. Maybe you have to be a special type of person, but this whole lifestyle just seems exhausting and over-managed.

Me neither. Especially as one of the best parts of my day is spent having a drink to forget the day’s nonsense.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by martyvis »

knubie wrote: post #4

If Anki’s UI/UX turns you off, I’ve built an alternative called Mochi ( https://mochi.cards/ ) that uses markdown. Incidentally it also supports Zettelkasten like note taking like described in the article.

You have a distracting typo on your title page - "Spaced Repetion" :-)

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by whatshisface »

southphillyman wrote: post #143

I use it for interview prep. I know some people advise against memorizing stuff in programming but it's been effective for me so far. You can spend 3-5 minutes in an interview trying to reason about implementing the partition method of a quicksort or translating 2D array indexes into 1d. With anki you can just regurgitate it out of your deep memory in 30 seconds whether you use it in your day to day or not.

Would an intervier be more likely to pass you if you were clearly recalling a memorized answer? That sounds so worthless... If I was interviewing I would switch to a different question.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by tryitnow »

yen223 wrote: post #35

I've used spaced repetition to help learn stuff in general. It's one of the most rewarding things I've done. Some general thoughts: 1. A lot of spaced repetition apps don't optimize for fast card creation. I like to make a card as soon as I come across something interesting, but the delay to get Anki started, and to create the card, etc just makes it frustrating. I wound up building my own app for this. 2. Cloze dele…

In my experience with Anki all four of your points are spot on, especially number 3.

A big problem I see with pre-made decks is that they contain just too much information.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by wahnfrieden »

tentboy wrote: post #87
wahnfrieden wrote: post #49

For Japanese learners, I built two iOS apps that cater to the special needs of the language. Manabi [0] is a flashcard app with the same algorithm as Anki but nicer UI. Manabi Reader [1] collects a bunch of short-form reading materials, lets you tap words to look them up, and tap to add a flashcard. It tracks the individual words you read and charts your progress word by word and kanji by kanji. This app has gotten p…

I will check these out! I use Anki for Japanese right now - mainly because I found Anki decks for each chapter of Genki 1 which I am working through right now.

Would love any feedback! The Reader app is really unique - no other app provides that kind of kanji-by-kanji reading progress functionality (probably because it took a tremendous amount of work under the hood to get it right).

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by mdocode »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #148
tentboy wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will check these out! I use Anki for Japanese right now - mainly because I found Anki decks for each chapter of Genki 1 which I am working through right now.

Would love any feedback! The Reader app is really unique - no other app provides that kind of kanji-by-kanji reading progress functionality (probably because it took a tremendous amount of work under the hood to get it right).

This looks really neat. Do you have any plans to make it available on Android or a web app?
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