I’ve been thinking about doing this—I’m trying to learn math (real/complex analysis, abstract algebra) for ‘long term retention’ as I’m not really using it right now but want to get ahead of learning it later, and struggling with retention of concepts and core proofs.
Do you think it’s going to be useful to share decks for this purpose? I feel like there are many benefits to making my own cards and adding them as I progress through the material, and being handed a deck for the whole subject at once will be overwhelming.
I am going to share my decks when I’m confortable with their quality.
They will all be on http://milchior.fr/Anki/
Right now, there is only the deck from Linear Algebra done Right.
Both as an anki package and as text
In both case, you’ll need an LaTeX compiler to see them correctly. Sharing the compiled version of LaTeX seems to be hard for my computer. I don’t really know, when I try to export with the media, the programs halts.
I do think it is useful to share decks. Because I don’t think creating the deck helped me a lot.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure that it’s a bas idea to use the deck for parts of the book you didn’t read yet. It is why I do advise to suspend the chapter you didn’t entirely understood yet.
As @Gurkenglas says, automatically suspending chapters could be a useful anki feature in this case. I’m not sure it would be useful for many people in general.
Thanks, this is useful.
I’ve been thinking about doing this—I’m trying to learn math (real/complex analysis, abstract algebra) for ‘long term retention’ as I’m not really using it right now but want to get ahead of learning it later, and struggling with retention of concepts and core proofs.
Do you think it’s going to be useful to share decks for this purpose? I feel like there are many benefits to making my own cards and adding them as I progress through the material, and being handed a deck for the whole subject at once will be overwhelming.
I am going to share my decks when I’m confortable with their quality. They will all be on http://milchior.fr/Anki/ Right now, there is only the deck from Linear Algebra done Right. Both as an anki package and as text
In both case, you’ll need an LaTeX compiler to see them correctly. Sharing the compiled version of LaTeX seems to be hard for my computer. I don’t really know, when I try to export with the media, the programs halts.
I do think it is useful to share decks. Because I don’t think creating the deck helped me a lot. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure that it’s a bas idea to use the deck for parts of the book you didn’t read yet. It is why I do advise to suspend the chapter you didn’t entirely understood yet.
As @Gurkenglas says, automatically suspending chapters could be a useful anki feature in this case. I’m not sure it would be useful for many people in general.
That sounds more like Anki decks need a feature for making what cards are shown tied to what chapter you say you’ve read up to.
You can fake this reasonably well with tags, or alternately, just importing on a chapter by chapter basis.