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That's super weird, I wonder if GP just copy-pasted it or if there's some other weird automated business going on.
Yeah sorry, I started writing the comment, then had deja vu, so I looked at my HN history, realized I'd already said it better before, and thought it was worth just pasting the previous one. Not automated.
Anki is great. Used it when learning/practicing music theory - generated flash cards with notes and chords (python script that generates LilyPond, iirc), been a huge help, much better than 'specialized' apps that basically do the same.
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…
I was just wondering how to apply anki for learning guitar tabs. Can you please share a sample of one of your piano cards?
When I am using the deck, on each card, I immediately hit the "space" key to show the back (because I am not using the deck to "memorize"). I practice the few bars on the screenshot, and then when I am bored (usually after a minute or two), I grade myself, by hitting the most relevant button (Again, Hard, Good, Easy), which gives the algorithm the info it needs to know when it should show me those bars to me again.
The deck works great on a PC, iPad or phone. Piano Practice in your pocket at all times!
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The best tool for that kind of thing is developing good note-taking skills. When I'm doing language study, for example, the backbone of my memory reinforcement strategy is a plain old pen-and-paper notebook. Anki is only used for specific, targeted reinforcement. Most my time with Anki these days is learning Chinese characters. That's arguably an ideal use case for brute-forcing with SRS, and that is indeed a very po…
Is there something that you would personally recommend in order to develop better note taking skills?
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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…
I should emphasize that in the process of going through the deck I was able to improve quality significantly. I changed many of the photos and added helpful notes so the script was really just a means to get the initial deck. A lot of the creation process occurred as I was reviewing and editing.
Flash card may be good for memorizing lots of stuff in a short time, but I find using flash card is incredibly boring. If we manage to learn things in long term, and we always should, there's always a more fun, more effective, and more efficient way to remember than paced reminder with flash card. For instance, - A new language: Comprehensive Input. Basically immersive studying with tons of reading, watching, and int…
>Language is all about the right intuition in the right context Huh? How about the tens of thousands of words you need to be able to recall and recognise in both directions in text and speech? You can't reason past irregular verbs and inconsistent rules about gender. If you're learning a language like Chinese, you need to memorise the characters. If you're learning a romance language, you need to memorise the conjuga…
Essentially, I’m advocating learning like natives. There is an interesting contrast too: Chinese schools used to teach Chinese kids English with an emphasis on mechanical repetition: grammars, memorizing words with Anki-like mechanisms, and etc. The result? Generations of students knew no more than 4000 words after 10 years of learning English, let alone writing or speaking fluently. In the past 20 years or so, though, their elite schools changed course, trying to teach their kids English like teaching them Chinese. The result has been astonishing. For the first time, a generation of Chinese students in even elementary school can use English fluently.
I’m also speaking from my own experience: I’m fluent in English, Chinese. Can read novels like Project Hail Mary in Spanish, and N3 in Japanese. I can attest that remembering words has never been a problem with intensive reading. The repetition in reading is just so contextual, natural, and more frequent than using Anki card. Listening and speaking can be a problem precisely because I don’t do them often enough.
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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...
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…
Genuine question, how will memorizing this info help him? I’m a parent too, and have prioritized activities that teach my child critical thinking (so they can self-solve problems). I’m curious if I should be layering in some memorization activities like this, which is why I ask. (Please don’t take my question as judging, I’m genuinely curious how it’s helped because I might replicate. And I’ve got huge respect for al…
So anki help to write into memory, expose to new things eventually, and associate two ideas. But the more there is association to ideas, to different contexts, the better.
I think kids benefit from Anki, it's not as different as a puzzle game, but side activities are as important as anki.
I think teaching kid all countries of the world might not be necessary, it might vanish if not used. But it's definitly not harmfull.
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I don't see any "storage permissions" option. Android 14.
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/14423 Looks like a bug with AnkiDroid and different Android versions (if the app was installed on a prior version of Android and Android was upgraded). Some workarounds in that thread.