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Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by realusername »

I'm using a competitor on Android since both Anki apps (AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid) really aren't good enough for my language learning activity. They aren't as good as the desktop Anki app.

I'm actually thinking of building my own app for a while since the all the flashcard apps on mobile don't really work for me. Not sure I'll find the motivation to do it though, I'm just using the least bad option I've found.

Specifically, I want to always auto-play cards with TTS and there doesn't seem to be an option with the apps to do that.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by throw_pm23 »

I tried to make it work for me many times. Several people in my circle recommend it, I understand the concept of spaced repetition, I wanted it to be useful. Still, it always feels off somehow, and mechanical, and never seems to click for me. I guess memorization is just not the bottleneck in anything I do.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by n3t »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #9

Sitting down with Michael W. Lucas's Networking for System Administrators and making Anki flashcards out of them was probably the highest impact thing I did for my career last spring. It's an incredible tool, truly. Anyone else who wants to learn just enough networking to never be 100% stumped by it again, I recommend both tools.

Can you share what your typical flashcard for the book looks like?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by yorwba »

clbrmbr wrote: post #12

I used Anki to learn to recognize the top 300 plant species (and top mushroom species) in my area by sight. Totally changed my perception of nature.

How did you find out what the top species in your area are? Did you start by taking pictures of random plants and then researching what they could be, or did you use something like a guidebook? And what did your Anki cards look like?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

n3t wrote: post #14
hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #9

Sitting down with Michael W. Lucas's Networking for System Administrators and making Anki flashcards out of them was probably the highest impact thing I did for my career last spring. It's an incredible tool, truly. Anyone else who wants to learn just enough networking to never be 100% stumped by it again, I recommend both tools.

Can you share what your typical flashcard for the book looks like?

There's a bunch of different subtypes I've used. But one surprisingly high ROI example has been private vs public IP flashcard examples.

E.g. "10.1.0.0 - private or public?" "Private - everything in 10.0.0.0/8 is considered private". "192.169.0.0?" "Public".

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by sivers »

My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5.

Examples of things he's memorized, for fun:

* every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map

* spelling

* many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration

* chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc)

* unix filesystem commands

* numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school)

* recognizing/naming photos of places we've been since he was born

* recognizing musical instruments or musical pieces by listening

* notes on a piano

* religious facts (when Judaism began & who started it, when Muslims pray & towards what, where Jesus was born & died, etc)

* names of characters in books he's read

* wise aphorisms

He enjoys it, and dances around while answering, proud of himself. Sometimes when learning something new on YouTube, on his own, he'll say, "Dad can we add this to Anki? I want to remember this."

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by james-bcn »

throw_pm23 wrote: post #13

I tried to make it work for me many times. Several people in my circle recommend it, I understand the concept of spaced repetition, I wanted it to be useful. Still, it always feels off somehow, and mechanical, and never seems to click for me. I guess memorization is just not the bottleneck in anything I do.

Yes. I've tried it various times too. But there is something that just doesn't seem right about it. It's memorisation for the sake of it.

I've found that writing about the things that interest me, giving presentations, and talking about stuff with people with similar interests, is much more effective.

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