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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 thinkingofthing »

Shameless plug: I'm working on www.flashka.ai , a platform that solves a bunch of painpoints I and many others have had with flashcards.

I've used Anki and found it amazing, but it got to the point where making flashcards was too time consuming and couldn't keep up with them.

Mid-last year I found my brother having the same problem and realised after playing with GPT how effective it was at generating flashcards. Not perfect, but good enough to save many hours of writing them.

Now with Flashka we have started re-thinking the medium a bit more and try to make a great study-tool out of it

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by outlace »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #130
Version467 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if they were, writing cards yourself forces you to engage with the material in a way that's highly conducive to learning it. It makes knowledge gaps more visible and forces you to understand it if you want to have any chance breaking the material down into pieces that make good cards. The positive effects of SRS rely just as much on the repetition as they do on the creation of the cards. I know that not everyone…

I've been studying Chinese with a premade deck for several years and it's working very well. Of course, ideally one would want to create cards, but I only can devote around 30 minutes per day. Under that restriction, creating cards is not really an option.

Which deck?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by albntomat0 »

nairboon wrote: post #42

Anki 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 Almost all packages on major distros are by now years out of date or kicked out, because Anki changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: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…

I’ve used their tarballed installer, which is straightforward. The app itself then checks for updates, and displays a reminder when there’s a new version.

Not as nice as having an updated version in apt, but it’s a trivial amount of work for something I personally get so much value out of.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by redcobra762 »

akxixn123 wrote: post #126
sivers wrote: post #18

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) * re…

Is he on the autism spectrum?

Who, the commenter or his child?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by igloopan »

Tarrosion wrote: post #26

Anyone have suggestions for the lowest friction / best UX way to generate and study Anki cards? (my smartphone is Android, if that matters.) I know spaced repetition is super helpful and I should be making and study cards to help with language learning and other topics I'm studying, but it always feels like a slog to try to find a deck (which won't end up being what you want) or manually make a bunch of cards, the UI…

To generate: if you're trying to learn Japanese, you can use the Yomichan [1] (or Yomitan now that Yomichan [2] has been sunset) extension for Chrome or Firefox which integrates with Anki so you can create a card for a word you don't know with two key presses.

[1] https://foosoft.net/projects/yomichan/ [2] https://github.com/themoeway/yomitan

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by redcobra762 »

SamPatt wrote: post #70

One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck. Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes…

ChatGPT is great at taking my notes and turning them into Anki cards. Some tweaks are occasionally needed, but I have done well on numerous exams letting ChatGPT figure out the cards (and the formatting tedium) for me.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by redcobra762 »

jan_Inkepa wrote: post #3

Every few years I use Anki heavily for language stuff (German, more recently Latin and Classical Chinese), up to 90 minutes a day, but I can never keep the workload under control, or my habits change, and give it up. I still benefit from a year of training, but it seems the long-tail of spaced repetition doesn't work for me at all. But so long as I get to the point where I can read or watch TV, the considerable effor…

The trigger that helps me is Anki on my phone will put little notification badges on itself if I have cards to review, and I hate to see unresolved notifications, so it forces me to study.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by tyrust »

redcobra762 wrote: post #156
SamPatt wrote: post #70

One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck. Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes…

ChatGPT is great at taking my notes and turning them into Anki cards. Some tweaks are occasionally needed, but I have done well on numerous exams letting ChatGPT figure out the cards (and the formatting tedium) for me.

This is the opposite of what the commenter is suggesting.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by huhtenberg »

kebsup wrote: post #94
clbrmbr wrote: post #89

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Dude. You rock at UX design. This is amazing… Only trouble I have tbh is figuring out what I want to read in German! But I’ve signed up and will give this a spin, and send what feedback I can.

Thanks! My design is the one on the website. The neo-brutalism was done by a junior designer who was looking for her first project and she did extremely good job!

FWIW the one on the website is much cleaner, self-consistent and overall more pleasant to look at it. The one in the app (at least the iOS one) is a clear step down. Just 2c.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by xbar »

zora_goron wrote: post #141

I used Anki quite a bit in med school, where it’s extremely popular. Admittedly, it took me a couple years to fully buy in to it as a tool for cramming hundreds of facts, especially coming from an academic background (computer science) where memorizing facts at a high rate was not a huge emphasis at all. After using it for a while though, I began to value how the quick recall encouraged by the system actually seemed…

Thank you for sharing your experience. This confirms my bias in the deep value of anki.
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