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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 LeonB »

bigfudge wrote: post #81
LeonB wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The supermemo article is here: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru... ...by the creator of supermemo who basically formulated the whole idea. In Point 1 he explains you shouldn’t use spaced repetition to learn. Use it to remember. In Point 10 he covers how to remember “enumerations” (with an alphabet example) You have to go back to the classics when you want to do something properly.

Spaced repetition and the learning curve is quite a bit older than supermemo.

Yeh, I hear ya. That’s why I used the word “formulated” rather than “discovered” —- because he really did the work to not just model it, but really implement a system with a very specific formula which he devised and which was the basis of the field we see today.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by sequoia »

This article reminds me of posts about "bullet journalling" on sites like Pinterest: the optimization of the productivity process or tool (or in the case of "bullet journal" posts, the beauty of the tool) is the end itself, not a means to an end. The posts are about/by "productivity" or "journalling" enthusiasts and don't map well to people who are simply seeking a bit of an organization or productivity boost, not an extremely time-consuming new hobby.

The thing in this article that most reminded me about beauty-journalling posts was the todo list. In vanity journalling circles, the todo lists are full of meta-tasks "post to instagram; new journal layout; blog post about journalling" as well as pure vanity items like "yoga!; Breakfast: saffron avocado toast (yum!!)" Likewise, in this post his todo list includes items about writing about productivity, using other productivity tools, and other such "meta-productivity" items.

There's nothing wrong with this but it reveals that the "productivity" itself is the hobby, not just a means to an end.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by kqr »

yewenjie wrote: post #53
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…

For frictionless card-creation I have made an org-capture template for quickly adding cards to an org-mode file via a custom Emacs pop-up frame. This is accessible from everywhere with the keybinding (Super + c + a). Exporting to Anki from Emacs is done via the anki-editor mode for Emacs. https://github.com/louietan/anki-editor

There is also org-drill that implements spaced repetition in org mode.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by bloopernova »

yewenjie wrote: post #53
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…

For frictionless card-creation I have made an org-capture template for quickly adding cards to an org-mode file via a custom Emacs pop-up frame. This is accessible from everywhere with the keybinding (Super + c + a). Exporting to Anki from Emacs is done via the anki-editor mode for Emacs. https://github.com/louietan/anki-editor

Thank you for creating and sharing that, I hadn't thought to look for an Emacs to Anki connector before.

Being able to add my slow-but-steady Lisp learning notes into Anki would be very cool.

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Post by 34t09-u35q4t »

ravitation wrote: post #141
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…

How exactly do you end up with ten thousand cards on Anki on a light semester? Are you using it for problem sets?

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by gentleman11 »

vslira wrote: post #118
gwd wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the issues Anki has, I find, is that if you end up taking a long break for whatever reason, there's no way to "reset". I used Anki to study Chinese for a period of about 10 years. At some point I decided that I wanted to memorize the poker "outs" (probabilities of filling out a hand based on what had currently been dealt). Then I went through a time where I was really busy and didn't study the poker deck for a…

For what it's worth, I keep everything in a single deck. I never stop reviewing stuff and "interleaving" makes learning more effective than "blocking" (studying things in blocks). Source: Bjork et al 2013 ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231610455_Self-Regu... )

Same: single decks are nice. It’s still hard if you break your habit though...

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by mroll »

komali2 wrote: post #110

Zettelkasten has been making the rounds here this year. His process appears similar to the org-mode process using Jethro Kuan's org-roam. I've started using it and while it can be a bit tricky to set up and there's a couple mildly annoying bugs (with workarounds), for a solo project it filled the niche for me perfectly. I use it for all note taking and reading now and it is very satisfying. https://blog.jethro.dev/po…

I also did not find org-roam super easy to set up, but after a second try I have it running and am enjoying it.

Edit: I tried it a month ago - before installation was more than just (load)'ing the file. Now there are nicely documented use-package instructions and a layer for spacemacs

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by bsanr »

>Imagine this:

>You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some of the brightest engineers in the world.

>Soon after, you’re thrust into management. Now, you’re leading teams of people who are 10 or 20 years older than you, working on one of the fastest growing internet companies of the last decade.

I can't bring myself to. It's too sweet a daydream, a fantasy that not a soul on this planet would have deigned to make reality for a black boy like myself, credentials be damned.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by rodelrod »

bloopernova wrote: post #158
komali2 wrote: post #110

Zettelkasten has been making the rounds here this year. His process appears similar to the org-mode process using Jethro Kuan's org-roam. I've started using it and while it can be a bit tricky to set up and there's a couple mildly annoying bugs (with workarounds), for a solo project it filled the niche for me perfectly. I use it for all note taking and reading now and it is very satisfying. https://blog.jethro.dev/po…

Same here, org-roam just kind of "clicked" things into place for me. I've modified a template for single-subject documents called "tags" so they're stored in ~/Org/tags/. I've also configured org-journal to store files in ~/Org/Journal/ One thing I'll be interested to discover, in the future, is how I archive or age out information. Most work stuff right now is related to a single project, so what happens when that p…

Split tasks from your knowledge base. Archive tasks/projects aggressively.
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