Effective Spaced Repetition
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Effective Spaced Repetition
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#2So… anyone used Chatgpt to generate cards for Anki?
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#3”Individual cards should be extremely brief, but your deck as a whole can be as repetitive as you want.”
Huh! I struggled with using Anki for pretty much this exact reason, always spent too much mental energy figuring out the “correct” number of cards for a given topic. But the author makes a good point here, if there’s too many cards on a certain topic you’ll just hit “I remember” on the repetitive cards and the algorithm will make them disappear for months - so there’s basically no cost to having “too many” flashcards!
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#4So… anyone used Chatgpt to generate cards for Anki?
It’s certainly an intriguing idea worth investigating. But for me, the process of creating the cards and being forced to distill what I read was critical to the success of using SRS.
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#5> Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used.
I totally second that. Well, sleep and exercise do amazing things for you too, but if you need to memorize things, I don't know of a quicker method than spaced repetition.
Check out Leitner system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system
Flashcards Deluxe supports Leitner, I don't know about Anki?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orangeorap... (I have no relation to that app, I just find it incredibly useful).
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#6I use SuperMemo https://super-memo.com/ for memorizing things. It uses spaced repetition. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out, very effective. I feel like I have seen an article on HN about it before.
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#7Tending to a digital garden of your own making has been the most effective for me by far. No other organization beyond that, at most hitting a random note inside a subfolder for 10-15 minutes a day.
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#8> Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used. I totally second that. Well, sleep and exercise do amazing things for you too, but if you need to memorize things, I don't know of a quicker method than spaced repetition. Check out Leitner system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system Flashcards Deluxe supports Leitner, I don't know about Anki? https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
Huge fan of SRS here. Anki never really gelled with me personally. I still use it but really prefer this app called StickyStudy. It’s mostly for learning Chinese / Japanese but there was a generic version which has sadly been abandoned by the dev. It has very straightforward SRS / leitner system and a bit more simplified ui. Not my app but just wanted to share and maybe inspire someone to make a successor ;-)
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#9So… anyone used Chatgpt to generate cards for Anki?
I used it to write a python script to convert a large json file full of a corpus of japanese business phrases and their english translations into anki card format.
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#10> Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used. I totally second that. Well, sleep and exercise do amazing things for you too, but if you need to memorize things, I don't know of a quicker method than spaced repetition. Check out Leitner system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system Flashcards Deluxe supports Leitner, I don't know about Anki? https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…
Thanks for the pointer to the Leitner system (my last name coincides…) But why would you want to use that simplified Leitner system if Anki can track each card individually?
Disclaimer: I don’t know if Anki supports a simplified system that applies spacing to a whole group of cards instead of each card individually, but why you would want that?