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How to create "community curated" Anki decks? For example, is it possible to create Anki decks and make them available on github so that if there are any mistakes, others might raise a merge request and once merged, everyone else can "pull" the latest deck?
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Self-imposed limitations are key to being effective. I was referring to pointless self imposed limitations. I was reading an interview with Andy Matuschak[1]. > One of the things that I think is kind of weird about this memory system stuff, or like memory champions, or something like that is “Oh, if you do these things, will you start to forget other normal human stuff?” And what's weird is, no. I've been doing this…
> So there isn't a resource management argument. Time???
If you enjoy it and want to learn it, it's not a waste of time. Or at least, there are likely plenty of things ordinary people do that are bigger wastes of time.
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Curious: How many cards are in his deck(s)? Do you do it with him daily? I was wondering when to start with my kid. Any writeup would be great. My other question: For me a lot of this is trivia (No judgement! That's fine!) Has he found it useful for education (i.e. school), and for anything that he applies on a semi-frequent basis (I suppose UNIX commands could be a good example).? I personally have used SRS since la…
About 1000 cards now. We do it daily. It's often just a few cards per day, so it takes 1-5 minutes. Spelling is the biggest category. I record myself saying a word that I've seen him spell wrong. The answer is the written word. Many of his old life-memories are saved. A picture of a playground he loved, where we used to live. A frame from a movie he liked. Asking for the name of the hero in a book he loved. Anki make…
1000 cards over 5-6 years is 160-200 per year, so on average less than one a day. Did you start out slow and increased the pace as he grew, or is it more of chunking (e.g. add a few cards per day for some days, then just review for days before adding more)?
I'm sure whatever approach you did was organic and not planned the way I'm writing it, but am curious how it actually evolved.
> Recognizing countries on the map is not trivial. On the playground, he met a kid from Syria. He asked the boy if he lived closer to Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, or Lebanon.
OK, this is beyond simply recognizing the country from its shape. How did he encode what the neighboring countries are?
When learning the countries, does the card show only the outline of that country, or is it more like a map with all countries, and the one under review is highlighted? If the latter, then it makes sense.
> The rest, he's just really proud to know. A kid at school says the moon is a million miles away. He was proud to know the more accurate distance.
Psst... Everyone knows it's 300,000 km away.
OK, fine. I memorized it wrong as a kid. Need to add it to my Anki deck ;-)
Everyone should be aware that someone hijacked the Anki name, so there is the genuine anki project and some copycat SaaS anki service with mobile apps in the app stores using the same name
I've found Anki useful for focusing piano practice. Each piece of music I have worked on over the years has a few tricky bars in it. Before Anki, I was really bad at remembering which bars I was bad at in each piece, and would tend to practice the bars I already know how to play, which is pleasant to do. Today, I have one deck, which has a flashcard for each set of tricky bars from all the pieces I've worked on. Now…
Everyone should be aware that someone hijacked the Anki name, so there is the genuine anki project and some copycat SaaS anki service with mobile apps in the app stores using the same name
I did not know this, and recommended someone recently install from the app store and it was $25. Makes a lot more sense now.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id373493... <- the legitimate one
Everyone should be aware that someone hijacked the Anki name, so there is the genuine anki project and some copycat SaaS anki service with mobile apps in the app stores using the same name
I did not know this, and recommended someone recently install from the app store and it was $25. Makes a lot more sense now.
All other platforms are free, including AnkiWeb, which can be used on iDevices
I wanted to fire up the AnkiDroid app on my Android device (which I installed a couple of years ago), and all I get is an error saying: "Please grant AnkiDroid storage permission to continue" and there's no way forward.