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That sounds like an awesome experience. Can you please share the links to the deck and the book?
Somewhat related: you might dig Andy Matuschak's Quantum Country project, which aims to incorporate a text's flash cards inside the text itself. https://quantum.country/ Later edit: I should have said "Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielson's".
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That sounds like an awesome experience. Can you please share the links to the deck and the book?
Somewhat related: you might dig Andy Matuschak's Quantum Country project, which aims to incorporate a text's flash cards inside the text itself. https://quantum.country/ Later edit: I should have said "Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielson's".
Which is to say, to each their own. I find it strange that people often insist that one way of learning or using a piece of software is objectively better than all other ways.
I think that the author was using Anki incorrectly, and that led them to the spurious conclusion that "Anki is dead". I also have attempted to use Anki this way- using someone else's deck to try to force myself to learn something new. But that doesn't work, because it is just memorizing random symbols, as they noted in the article ("The enemy is the static card"). For example in maths learning, memorizing arbitrary t…
Look, if you want to learn a new language, move to a country and get a boyfriend/girlfriend. slaps hands my job is done here
This is why I built Manabi Reader (currently only for Japanese) https://reader.manabi.io It helps you discover reading material suited to your current knowledge. It’s better to acquire new words within colorful contexts, and then use flashcards to review them after learning the material. (It has its own flashcard companion app or you can use Anki.) Soon I am working on making the activity of reading words in native t…
> only for Japanese and only for Apple devices...
It's essentially Ttsu reader + Yomitan (née Yomichan) + Ankidroid integration packed into one app. You have to find your own reading material though, but there's plenty of that go around. Jidoujisho has some OCR support for reading manga too, although I never found those tools to be working well enough in any app.
For websites on Android (e.g. news or Aozora Bunko) the same can be achieved with Firefox + Yomitan - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yomitan/ - as Yomitan has an Ankidroid integration of its own. Or any other browser with extension support, whether desktop or mobile, desktop versions integrate with desktop Anki.
In theory, Yomitan supports other languages as well, although making it work with Finnish took me quite some effort a year ago (maybe it's easier now).
I think that the author was using Anki incorrectly, and that led them to the spurious conclusion that "Anki is dead". I also have attempted to use Anki this way- using someone else's deck to try to force myself to learn something new. But that doesn't work, because it is just memorizing random symbols, as they noted in the article ("The enemy is the static card"). For example in maths learning, memorizing arbitrary t…
Using someone elses deck is such a siren song, and I honestly believe it's detrimental to properly using Anki. Making and curating your own cards is an essential step in learning the new concepts.
1. Instead of the usual "1 new word, 1 card" have 2 - 3 new words on each card, and have each new word in 3 - 4 different cards (ideally with different inflection, meaning, nuance, etc) 2. Review cards fast and very few times each. Like 5 - 8 times / card (max) instead of usual 15 - 20. 3. Don't punish yourself, keep moving on even if you just half-remember. First familiarize and then internalize language patterns instead of just memorize words.
Review intentionally, totally concentrated on the task. 10 mins / day well done >>> 30 mins / day mindlessly.
Outcome: more fun, more effective learning, no memorizing rectangles.
* Generating a variety of example sentences
* Determining if a response was semantically similar to the target answer (my app requires providing an answer, similar to WaniKani), and explaining why or why not
* Explaining context and usage of a word
* Suggesting vocabulary words about highly specific interests (as long as its within the knowledge window of the model)
I've used it for over 60,000 reviews so far and it's working pretty well for my use case.
It can be tried out for free and is currently available on the web and iOS. It supports 8 languages and within each pair of languages, so if you are learning or speak English, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, French, German, or Chinese you can try it out for free. If it doesn't support your language and you're interested please feel free to get in touch.
Facts are required for critical thinking. I wonder if the writer eventually transitioned from fact-memorization flashcards, to concept-based questions (how does it make sense that....?).
No, to be honest I haven't had so much practice with those kinds of cards; I've mostly used it for vocabulary and geography. How does it change things?
Examples:
- Cloze: "Swelling of the optic disc is called [c1::papilledema]"
Concept-based:
- Front: "Papilledema (optic disk swelling) - use the pathophysiology to explain what situations you would see this in generally."
- Back: "Anything causing central retinal vein drainage ↓ (e.g., high ICP or central retinal vein occlusion)."
- Extra field: """ Anything causing central retinal vein drainage ↓ (e.g., high ICP or central retinal vein occlusion) → back-up of blood into the capillaries of the optic nerve/disk → hydrostatic pressure ↑ → transudate of fluid leaking across the capillaries → optic nerve/disk swelling (optic disk swelling = papilledema).
Recall that the optic nerve (and thus the optic disk) drains into the central retinal vein, which ultimately drains into the cerebral circulation. """
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> only for Japanese and only for Apple devices...
For Android there's Jidoujisho https://github.com/arianneorpilla/jidoujisho . It's essentially Ttsu reader + Yomitan (née Yomichan) + Ankidroid integration packed into one app. You have to find your own reading material though, but there's plenty of that go around. Jidoujisho has some OCR support for reading manga too, although I never found those tools to be working well enough in any app. For websites on Android (e…