Anki is commonly used by Rubik's Cube enthusiasts who want to memorize lots of algorithms. You can do basic methods with just a few algorithms, but people use Anki when you want to memorize hundreds.
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
#132My 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) * re…
Your boy is precious! He's on his way to becoming a highly intelligent adult. I've seen a lot of people going like... why remember stuff when you can easily google it? But it doesn't work that way. The more facts reside in your brain, the more avenues it has to connect them together and generate insights (after all, that thing is the OG "neural network"). I highly admire your parenting in this aspect, and I hope to d…
I’ve never remembered anything by memorization. Only at school and university for exams, and only to promptly forget it one week later. The stuff that I have remembered for years I learned organically by using it, as part of some mental process, by embedding it in some larger structure. Be it coding, physics, or history. So I think this is a fairly individual matter
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#133Spaced repetition, especially when using tools like Anki, is effective for memorizing facts. However, memorization represents the most basic level of learning objectives, see e.g. [1] and [2]. Are there any recommended tools for practicing more advanced levels of knowledge, such as relational analysis, synthesis, and critical evaluation? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy [2] https://en.m.wikipedi…
Immersion is the only "tool" I know that tries to make the next leap formalized. For language learning at least, saturating yourself with input lets the brain build the deep relational maps it needs to use language, and no amount of rote learning of arbitrary grammar and vocab can replace that process.
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#134I actually looked into Anki recently, my idea being:
instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media during downtime, why not memorize poems and great song lyrics?
The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local.
I have to admit, I haven't searched on Play Store for one.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
#135I actually looked into Anki recently, my idea being: instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media during downtime, why not memorize poems and great song lyrics? The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local. I have to admit, I haven't searched on Play Store for one.
> The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local.
Anki does not require your web credentials, so it's very well suited for you!
You can create an account if you want to sync your decks between computers or to your phone. It is not necessary or required.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
#136My 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) * re…
Are these separate decks or a single deck for your son? Do things come out of the deck(s)? What triggers that?
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
#137I actually looked into Anki recently, my idea being: instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media during downtime, why not memorize poems and great song lyrics? The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local. I have to admit, I haven't searched on Play Store for one.
> The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local. Anki does not require your web credentials, so it's very well suited for you! You can create an account if you want to sync your decks between computers or to your phone. It is not necessary or required.
Excellent. Thanks.
Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
#138Spaced repetition, especially when using tools like Anki, is effective for memorizing facts. However, memorization represents the most basic level of learning objectives, see e.g. [1] and [2]. Are there any recommended tools for practicing more advanced levels of knowledge, such as relational analysis, synthesis, and critical evaluation? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy [2] https://en.m.wikipedi…
I think the closest thing would be concept mapping software or knowledgebase software like Obsidian. But that's more about storing concepts and not so much about learning concepts.
If that software existed, it would be incredible.
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#139A lot of people seem to like shared card decks but creating your own cards is part of the learning process, you spent time with the material you want to learn, which is the main thing that helps you learning. shameless self-plug: On macos and iOS we found Anki a bit out of place so we build a competitor explicitly for language learning ( https://wokabulary.com/ ).
Looks like a cool app, but a monthly subscription for a content free flash card App is asking too much. (Personally I prefer my learning tools to stay around without monthly payments)
We plan to introduce a lifetime purchase.
Initially, and for many years, we also tried to not have a subscription but steady development needs to paid somehow, same goes for customer support. If Apple would allow for paid upgrades…
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#140Anki is a great software, but unfortunately it is quite difficult to install on Linux systems. Almost all packages on major distros are by now years out of date or kicked out, because Anki changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378 Nowadays, the Anki version in Ubuntu is from 2019! The snaps are also hopelessly outdat…
There is no Anki package for Debian 12, and the binaries on the Anki website are only 64bit, so on my 32bit system I use the online version on ankiweb.net, which actually works pretty well.