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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 keiferski »

burntwater wrote: post #307
redcobra762 wrote: post #156

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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.

Would you mind giving an example of the kind of prompt(s) you use to get these card generated? On a different note, ChatGPT has been making me feel stupid because I fail to come up with many use cases, while it seems like tons of technically unskilled people come up with all kinds of uses...

Not the person you’re asking, but I wrote a bit about my experiences here: https://neurotechnicians.com/p/generative-ai-and-anki-part-1...

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by watwut »

Jtsummers wrote: post #161
watwut wrote: post #146

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The thing with Anki is that you cant control how much workload you have per day. Anki algorithm decides that. Say, you start by doing it little bit every day and you are fine for first three weeks. But then, Anki starts assigning you more and more repetition and that is it. If you do less one day, Anki gives you those cards the next day on top of the normal workload of that day. There is no way out. Worst, the less y…

There is a cap on how many cards will get reviewed from a deck each day. Lower it if the default cap is too high. If you're finding that you reliably do not recall some card Anki will eventually mark it as a leech. Those cards get suspended automatically after some number of lapses. That will reduce your workload because suspended cards are't part of your workload. https://docs.ankiweb.net/leeches.html

You need to mark that card with lowest recall for leeches to happen. If you mark it with second lowest one, it won't become leech.

If it becomes leech, it will be ignored entirely by anki.

All of that is too much expertise about how to mark cards instead of allowing you to do it intuitively.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by deafpolygon »

brobinson wrote: post #334
bheadmaster wrote: post #286

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Damn, that's a really human-like response. This bot game is really getting serious.

Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.

That's what they want you to think. He's probably been replaced by a Chinese AI.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by stefandesu »

sivers wrote: post #330
BeetleB wrote: post #263

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> About 1000 cards now. We do it daily. It's often just a few cards per day, so it takes 1-5 minutes. 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 plann…

> How did he encode what the neighboring countries are? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria#/media/File:Syria_(ortho... That map of the globe is what we use as the front of the card He sees that and knows the answer is Syria. But because we also do that for the other countries around it, he knows Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, etc. He knows where that country is, in context of…

He might enjoy this: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

I bet he's really good at it!

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by jcul »

clbrmbr wrote: post #78
yorwba wrote: post #15

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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?

I used iNaturalist website to list 500 most observed plant species in Eastern USA and Canada, and used a script to scrape the species names (scientific and common) and the URL of the title photo. I used another script to download the images and build the anki deck. My decks have just the photo on the front, then scientific name + common name + notes on back. I’ve made many notes in my decks, mostly about the etymolog…

What did you use for creating the deck?

I've done something similar in the past, scraping images + info and then used genanki I think to make the deck. Works fine for my basic cards at least.

Though I'd prefer to be able to use normal bash tools to manipulate markdown cards.

I think there are solutions to generate anki decks from markdown or anki alternatives that use markdown cards directly, but using genanki ended up being sufficient and giving me enough flexibility, considering I wouldn't be editing the deck much after.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by markusl2ll »

sodality2 wrote: post #205

No one has mentioned it yet, so I'll drop this alternative: https://mochi.cards/ Much prettier than Anki, has a simpler algorithm that doesn't require rating difficulty, and has lots of the same features. I'm a subscriber just because of the cloud sync - wish I could self-host but I'm happy to support the developer.

Anki has AnkiWeb for cross device sync and (supposedly, haven't tried) has self-hosting.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by rofrol »

anthonypz wrote: post #309
samus wrote: post #271

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That is important. SRS doesn't work for many people because, in short, they don't really enjoy it.

When I start to dislike opening up Anki, it’s usually because my cards are too complex and take too much time to memorize. Creating multiple cards with single cloze words makes the process much more enjoyable. Anki has helped me so much with memorizing programming language syntax for example.

Can you share some deck?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by libbrfish »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #353
hereme888 wrote: post #324

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Initial deck: simple facts. More advanced decks, after simple facts are memorized: concept-based. Example: Front: Rotator cuff tear - diagnosis? Why would this make sense? Back: MRI is generally better for soft tissue; you wouldn't use a CT scan, which is much better for bone. Remember that X-rays / CTs generally work by shooting high-frequency electromagnetic radiation "X-rays" at tissue - if the tissue has dense el…

Do doctors keep this much in their heads? I would have this in a notes system that I could recover by searching for "rotator cuff" during the appointment. I know I'd never remember it all, but maybe with Anki I would.

I work in a university hospital as a neuroradiologist. I've used Anki extensively during my studies and my specialist training. Now I use it to memorize thousands of image diagnosis patterns and differential diagnosis. 'You can't diagnose (or see) what you don't know', which means using an extensive note system is insufficient. I recommend Anki to all the radiologists (and doctors in general) training in our institute.
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