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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
#52I used to be a SuperMemo user for several years and accumulated more than six thousands items. It has advanced algorithms. Both Anki and Mnemosyne are based on the algorithm of SuperMemo 2(its version is 16 now). And there are several pieces of articles about human memory on its website which are very helpful. But about a year ago, I gave up Supermemo. Because it's really buggy and bloated. I was so worried about my…
Unfortunately there's no sign of progress on the Mnemosyne research project, it looks unlikely to ever happen at this point. It uses the same algorithm as Anki (SM-2) as its base. Not to say they are equivalent though - both (especially Anki) add many refinements to the basic algorithm.
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#53Medical student here. I've tried many flashcard programs (StudyBlue, Quizlet, gFlashcard, MentalCase, and more), and Anki is by far the best for my needs.
One thing that puts Anki in an orbital beyond the other programs is the ImageOccusion editor add-on [1]. This lets you screenshot an image, draw rectangles over labels within that image, and then generate a flashcard for each label. This works insanely well for learning anatomy.
I remember about a month ago where I had two hours to learn the names of all the tracts and nuclei inside of the brainstem for a readiness quiz. It took about 10 minutes to create flashcards for them all, and an hour to memorize. I passed the quiz. Days later fellow classmates were still struggling to remember the same information.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
#54Anyone studying Japanese should check out Flashcard Tree: http://www.flashcardtree.com/
It's an SRS like Anki with a focus on integrating real video content like Anime into the learning process.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am using memrise.com which works pretty well to learn some vocabulary. You can learn pre-made lists contributed by users, and does not require any set up.
Have a look at Duolingo if you like Memrise, it's a more in depth language learning tool that uses the same kind of ideas.
sadly duolingo has a very limited set of languages, but for thos it had it seemed very nicely done to me.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
#56If you're interested in this you should also check out http://quizlet.com Not strictly SRS but much better UI, mobile apps, audio, etc.
If you still want SRS it's pretty easy to export from Quizlet to Anki:
Find the export button on the upper right of Quizlet's website, and select tab delimited and new line termination. Copy paste this into a text editor. Now you can just click the import button in Anki and it's pretty straightforward!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using a similar method to learn some German vocabulary for about 8 months now (using Flashcards Deluxe, not Anki, though), and I could specially relate to the "Two-way connections" section of your friend's article. For example, my deck is currently German to English. As an experiment, once I reversed the deck for a while (making it English to German) and suddenly it became much harder. Maybe the solution is…
I am using memrise.com which works pretty well to learn some vocabulary. You can learn pre-made lists contributed by users, and does not require any set up.
Memrise is fine too. Do you use decks Source Language -> Destionation Language, the other way around, or both?
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#58My friend and I have been using this for years. My friend took it pretty serious this year: http://rs.io/2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html It's really useful for courses in college, especially Language, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for definitions, pronunciations, systems, etc. Math and Computer Science is a bit hard since a lot of that requires practice and it takes time to figure out how to structure those…
It's a great tool for memorizing things that need to be rote-memorized. Chinese characters often fall into that category. Arcane Chemistry vocabulary probably do as well. It's just a flash card system on steroids. If you know how to use a flash card system appropriately then this is a pretty powerful substitute.
Certainly flash card systems shine on things that need to be rote-memorized, but you can "hack" the system by engineering your questions in a certain way, like the "Why" questions mentioned by the author of linked article on parent comment.
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#59One thing I've been doing in the past months, with great results, is memorizing passwords. I don't know how prevalent this is in the US, but here in Brazil, we use a lot of cards with chips, so that you type a password instead of signing a paper. To make it worse, there are sometimes different passwords for the same service in different situations (for example, most banks use a 4 or 6-digit password for debit purchases and a different 6 or 8-digit password for Internet Banking).
There are also credit card passwords, employee-issued benefit cards (I for example have a different card - and different passwords - for a meal card, a groceries card and a fuel card).
So, lately I've been randomly generating those and memorizing them with flashcards in a spaced repetition system. Has worked very well for me, with about 10 random 4-8 digit numeric passwords to remember.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards
#60My friend and I have been using this for years. My friend took it pretty serious this year: http://rs.io/2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html It's really useful for courses in college, especially Language, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics for definitions, pronunciations, systems, etc. Math and Computer Science is a bit hard since a lot of that requires practice and it takes time to figure out how to structure those…
It definitely helps a lot for axioms, basic definitions, basic theorems, distribution functions and for things you "get wrong every time" etc., but everything beyond that it's inferior to exercises. As an example: I remember learning set theory and the subset relations of the number sets much faster than anyone else in my class.
One hack I've been using is making cards like "How to solve exercise X on Book Y, page Z?".
For me, doing a lot of exercises only once has worked worse than doing some key exercises more than once, and by using spaced repetition software (Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc) you can leverage its systems to get an optimized "schedule" for solving/revisiting exercises for math, physics, etc, so you don't have to worry about timing issues (like how many sessions of studying, and how long/frequent they should be).