Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

Post by Postosuchus » Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 8:43 PM UTC

DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #259

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…

> when Judaism began & who started it A bit off topic, but this is a very tricky question to answer. The traditional answer is Moses, ca. 1200 BC. The real answer would take many PhD theses to arrive at. It's really a process that took place between the 10th and 5th centuries BC (and arguably continued even much later than that).

Post by leobg » Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 9:25 PM UTC

kebsup wrote: post #82

(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…

Post by heap_perms » Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 9:54 PM UTC

vsizov wrote: post #118

Anki is awesome. I used it for a couple of years to improve my English vocabulary but I ended up using spreadsheets like airtable because of few reasons: 1) Import/export is limited when I want to create a batch of flashcards from the list (from ChatGPT for example) 2) It's hard to stick to it and do it everyday. I wish it showed some progress in motivating way. This is why we use TODO lists after all. We human being…

Post by atahanacar » Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 10:14 PM UTC

poirot2 wrote: post #371

atahanacar wrote: post #191

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>if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck I disagree with this. Anki's power comes from spaced repetition. Spending your time creating cards instead of actually reviewing the material is very inefficient. If high quality decks exist for the topic you're learning, use them instead. I've learned this the hard way. Fields like medicine and language learning (you will still need to create your…

I disagree with this strongly. Isolated individual facts don’t give you an overview or macro-structure to place the facts within. It’s very inefficient. Can only speak for medicine but using another persons deck is ‘quicker’ but performance is so much worse. Even in just learning how to summarise the info for yourself you gain a lot.

Post by more_corn » Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 11:28 PM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #230

mhb wrote: post #204

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Unless he runs out of memory.

That's what swap is for. When I stop responding and the wife asks if I'm still listening, sometimes I tell her I'm swapping right at the moment.