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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 prirun »

FalconSensei wrote: post #177
the_af wrote: post #129

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Ok, but I understood the person mentioned in the article does this with every book regardless of subject. And like the OP said, I just can't relate to living like that.

Maybe OP only reads books that he wants to remember, so doing that for every book is valid. On the other way around, maybe some people wouldn't be able to relate to reading a lot of books when you don't want to commit what you learned to memory

He mentioned in the article that he first reads a bunch of book summaries to decide which books to read in full.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by aplaice »

rajlego wrote: post #287
dot1x wrote: post #280

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Too bad SM is Windows-only and desktop-only. The beauty of Anki is that you can review anywhere.

On linux you can use SM via vmware/wine and on os x it's quite usable with parallels. If you're using SRS just for language learning then being able to use on mobile can be helpful but I think for those cases supermemo.com can be a decent alternative. More generally, I think the platform specificness of SuperMemo is more than made up for with its incremental reading functionality (alongside better scheduling algorith…

> On linux you can use SM via vmware/wine

To add to this, there's a set of Winetricks recipes for running SM on Linux.[0] (Disclaimer: I haven't tried them, though I've been planning to, for a while.)

[0] https://github.com/alessivs/supermemo-wine

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by FalconSensei »

prirun wrote: post #291
FalconSensei wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe OP only reads books that he wants to remember, so doing that for every book is valid. On the other way around, maybe some people wouldn't be able to relate to reading a lot of books when you don't want to commit what you learned to memory

He mentioned in the article that he first reads a bunch of book summaries to decide which books to read in full.

So he only reads books he want to remember, right?

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by r00fus »

josinalvo wrote: post #200
r00fus wrote: post #192

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> 3. I fared better with lots of small, one-sentence cards. My rule of thumb is that a card should fit in a tweet. Can someone tell me if this is a crazy good idea? Social network + spaced repetition. Why should you build all your own cards? Taking a class with classmates? Create a group & create cards during lecture, review/curate cards afterwards during study session, then rate which ones were most useful after the…

not crazy, i think but my cards are hard to read by other parties, when I optimize for my own learning

Agreed. I guess what I'm suggesting is a socialization of the act of card creation & curation so the group creates/uses them.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by loco5niner »

bsanr wrote: post #169

>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 a mistake to assume opportunity is limited by race in this field and credentials aren't as useful as they used to be.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by zadokshi »

chipuni wrote: post #229
gwd wrote: post #61

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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…

I've used Anki for about ten years, and I'm going to tell you a huge secret... There's absolutely no need to "reset". Ever. If you have only ten minutes to devote to Anki, then only spend ten minutes. If at some later point, you have more time, then spend that time. Set the maximum reviews per day to something you can do most days -- for me, that's 250 cards. If you're behind, turn off 'new' cards. And eventually, yo…

Having used Anki for 10 years, reset is definitely the best option.you fly through the cards you remember at the start, and don’t get bogged down by cards your ‘supposed’ to remember.

(SRS fails in this regards)

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Post by zadokshi »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #239
r00fus wrote: post #192

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> 3. I fared better with lots of small, one-sentence cards. My rule of thumb is that a card should fit in a tweet. Can someone tell me if this is a crazy good idea? Social network + spaced repetition. Why should you build all your own cards? Taking a class with classmates? Create a group & create cards during lecture, review/curate cards afterwards during study session, then rate which ones were most useful after the…

The actual act of creating the cards is also useful to the learning process. Even if you are copying someone else's cards, copying them by hand will lead to better retention than having a computer import them.

I used to think that. Now I’m not so sure.

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by keeprunning »

thrifter wrote: post #240

Readwise.io user here, and I love it. Readwise helps me remember what I read (not just books, but articles too). I get sent a daily email with three excerpts/highlights and it quickly refreshes my memory. Books seem like a better investment for me now because I'm not just forgetting them. BTW, you can choose as many or few excerpts as you want, and what books / articles as well. If the good folks at Readwise are read…

recently tried it out as well, and i'm really impressed [especially with the ability to import highlights from instapaper and the kindle clippings file]

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by wahnfrieden »

goostavos wrote: post #219
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…

Ah, bummer that Reader is Apple only. It looks really awesome!

I will be bringing it to macOS desktop at least!

Re: Using Anki to remember what you read

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Post by webwanderings »

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.

Where does it save the data locally?
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