An iOS Anki alternative app? The official costs 27,99€ and I would give it a shot if not for the high price.
Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
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#182I use anki with org-noter and the anki-editor minor mode for digesting PDFs, a sort of hacked version of incremental reading. I just stuff entire definitions and proofs into it and use cloze deletions for almost everything, then I attach a bunch of screenshots from the source material in the "Extra" field for any context when/if I fail the card. That, combined with the load balancer plugin and a limit of 5 new cards per day keeps my daily reviews around 1 hour. I have 18,000 cards. I'm familiar with the 20 rules for formulating knowledge but I just don't care to break things down into atoms. So I cloze and forget.
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#183I can’t get used to Anki’s UI. I’ve tried it many times and failed. It’s sort of like org mode to me. Instead I use memrise.com
Anki's UI is really bad across all applications.
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So much this. I use Anki for more than a decade, and every single time there is a touch of frustration that Anki UX stuck in mid-2000. Another super annoying feature is that historically Anki is free except iOS – somehow mentality of "iOS users are rich" sneaked in – and Anki for iOS costs ~25$. This makes it prohibitively hard to recommend Anki to non-Android users, especially to younger generation which virtually d…
Please don't equate UX to a particular era. UX is how a thing works . That is a timeless quality. Anki UX just sucks. I agree. Even if it were year 2000, its UX is not great.
How could it easily be better?
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Thanks for providing these details. For your Python example I'd just use a snippet. On the other hand, Google's pretty fast and always updated. It's all a personal trade-off I guess. I wouldn't say it's common for me to forget I knew something. But maybe the cost of creating, maintaining, and reviewing card decks is worth it for you.
What use is a snippet if I forget it exists and that there is a better way?
You'd probably remember a snippet if you made it. If not, there's autocomplete.
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#186Has anyone got a solid anki deck for probability and linear algebra?
Decks other people wrote usually aren't useful. You need to make your own flash cards. It's painful, but it's much more useful.
I used to think so too. Then I read the research on this, and the evidence suggests the opposite of what you wrote: your time is better spent doing retrieval practice than creating your own cards.
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This is just memorization through brute repetition without the SRS optimization. Less efficient, and more time consuming.
That's a bit harsh. As someone who regularly uses flash cards, creating them really is a bottleneck. It's a lot quicker to handwrite something on a paper. It's not as effective, but it definitely is faster.
i also find that spatial layout and a fixed sequence can help with recall. flash cards are supposed to improve on that, but for me, personally, the spatial component is helpful- especially when related concepts are near each other.
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#188I have used Anki productively, I think it's a great tool, and should be a component of learning in many fields. But I can't help but think it could be a lot better, a lot more efficient, perhaps even 2x more. Anki allows you to customise many aspects of when cards are shown. But presumably those settings can be tuned for a individual, a subject, or even a card. One person probably doesn't have enough data to know wha…
So much this. I use Anki for more than a decade, and every single time there is a touch of frustration that Anki UX stuck in mid-2000. Another super annoying feature is that historically Anki is free except iOS – somehow mentality of "iOS users are rich" sneaked in – and Anki for iOS costs ~25$. This makes it prohibitively hard to recommend Anki to non-Android users, especially to younger generation which virtually d…
The android app is a FOSS community effort, while the iOS app is first-party. There is no double standard here, if anything Android users are the ones which are disadvantaged by the Anki developers.
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I think to make the most of it you need to engage your imagination. Relating stories and context to the facts transforms it from ‘staring at flashcards for hours’ into more of a game and something to enjoy. And the great thing is, because of the spaced repetition, you don’t need to spend hours on it at a time. You can learn a lot in 5/10 mins a day.
This is exactly why I still lament the loss of my favorite language learning app: "Cat Academy" ( https://www.wired.co.uk/article/catacademy ) It was using flashcards of cats with funny captions and it actually worked. Sadly my old phone eventually broken and the app can't be installed from the appstore anymore.
Have you tried fluent forever? their app uses a similar concept except you pick your own photos to help you remember. I finally found a use for many of the random photos of my dogs I’ve been saving in my phone for years!
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What use is a snippet if I forget it exists and that there is a better way?
You'd probably remember a snippet if you made it. If not, there's autocomplete.
I wouldn't. Pre-flash cards, it was not unusual for me to review notes I had made years ago and rediscover things. And then forget they existed all over again.