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0 pointswatwut2y ago0 comments

If you reread chapters of a book in intervals, you are doing spaced repetition. If you return back to previous topic in math and do exercises again, you do spaced repetition.

Flashcard are just easy to implement application of it.

Yes among flashcards, anki is the most popular. But naive use of it leads to a lot of pain and tons of problems, you have to learn how to use anki.

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blackbear_2y ago

Do you have any resources for learning how to use Anki? I use the default settings and I find them okay

michaelcampbell2y ago

/r/anki on reddit is actually pretty good.

Default settings are ok although I'd say 2 things that are counter to some common advice there:

* Actually use all 4 ratings buttons, and come up with a scheme for when. For me it was 1: missed it, 2: had to guess, but guessed right, 3: got it, 4: got it without even reading the entire prompt

* If you're insistent on the (IMO bad advice) "only use 1 and 3 keys" thing, install the "Straight Rewards" plugin. Without it, all your ease factors will decay to their lowest level (130% by default) since '1' lowers it, but '3' does not raise it, so it can only go down. With "Straight Rewards", it'll up the ease factor for you gently as you rate a card '3' enough times in a row.

Alternately, install the FSRS4Anki plugin. It's more work, but is a more dynamic scheduler. Requires the V3 Anki scheduler being enabled, and one of the more later versions. Do some reading on this before you try it; you can always go back, but it's not been proven yet to be substantially better than SM2.

davty2y ago

I think it is pretty well established that simply re-reading can trick you into thinking that you know the material (via recognition) instead of actually remembering/understanding.

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