Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition

I'm also using Anki for Finish vocab, and it had helped me a lot. To the point it does feel like a super power.

If you are going to use Anki, it's important to switch the knobs to adapt to what you are learning.

I will share some of the things that have worked for me, for Finnish vocab:

- Intervals for new cards (until they are considered 'learned'): 1 10 15 50 240. The 240 is critical for me: if I forgot it after 4 hours, it goes back to 1 again... if I got it after 4 hours, then it will have better chances in a couple of days. Of course this is personal, I have been tweaking those until something makes sense to me.

- Lapese (when a known card is forgotten, and how to re-learn): 10 30 240. Again the 240 check.

- Set an ammount of new cards and max reviews per day that does not make you feel misserable... there needs to be some joy on learning...

If I may ask, are you just learning the vocab ? have you taken courses? Where are you getting the vocab from ?

I have trained people in my environment and they have improved enormously.

It is a very good idea that you read a book about mnemonics, and all the techniques, things like exaggerating pictures or places in your head, remembering faces, what a neural connection is and so on, and start applying it.

My upper limit (in anki) is over 400 new words in a different language (like chinese or japanese) per day with extreme exhaustion, not doing anything the entire day but memorizing. This is the equivalent of running a marathon for me on the mental field(I have done real marathons too).

My lower limit is learning 40-50 new words per day. It takes 1 hour,more than a minute per word and no significant effort, I do this as daily routine with now consequences for my work.

Over time, learning new languages become easier and easier.

The world opens a lot when you can go to places like China or Japan and at least you understand what the symbols on the street or the people say. You get a much deeper knowledge about things.

Anki is one of the most amazing things ever invented.

I am incredible good remembering faces and facial expressions, very good remembering places. I see a place on a picture, I know where it is if I have traveled there.

But I am very bad remembering sounds. So I never try to remember using sounds like other people do.

You should learn about yourself, what are your strengths and use them. Buy different memory books and just try them like I did. Some techniques will work for you, some not.