This might be very late in the game for a reply. I use it mainly for MOOC and textbook learning as well as very successfully dumping large amounts of German vocabulary into my head.
From February I have the following deck stats (usually 1⁄2 hour in the morning, whilst stationary cycling—one boring high-intensity body task and one boring high-intensity mental task hack):
Mature: 12094 Young+Learn: 392
Unseen: 59142 Suspended: 11528
The decks take a bit of fiddling to ensure you have the correct amount of cards setup. Initially in my first two months, I had too many ‘new cards’ set up. This would lead to a massive escalation in required time (peaked at 90 minutes in 2 weeks). I then cut new cards, just specified 10-15 new a day, depending on the deck. This evened me out to 30 minutes a day.
One caveat, I don’t skip a day, ever. When I go hiking, I pre-learn the 2-3 days that I’ll be away from any technology in order to pre-empt coming home to a disheartening deck. There are tablet and phone apps available, but usually when traveling I don’t want to wake up to Anki when there is a view. :)
Currently I don’t really have a workflow for card addition, although in the past I have mainly used CSV files that were nicely laid out and quality checked before importing. I’ve also done some BeautifulSoup scraping for website data extraction and word frequencies from books. I also use DuoLingo daily (German again), and the words and useful phrases I typically just dump into org-mode for transfer later (usually once weekly) when I have time.
Initially when creating and managing your decks I would suggest making backups often as sometimes syncing makes weird things happen (mostly media related disappearances between linux desktop client and android tablet) but other than that I love this tool.
For language word lists, I have also created a script that pushes the word or phrase to Google Translate (yes, yes, terms of service fingers in ears) and downloads and saves an MP3 locally. I know AwesomeTTS does most of this, but it is nice to have the media available in countries where internet access is at best intermittent and always capped.
This might be very late in the game for a reply. I use it mainly for MOOC and textbook learning as well as very successfully dumping large amounts of German vocabulary into my head.
From February I have the following deck stats (usually 1⁄2 hour in the morning, whilst stationary cycling—one boring high-intensity body task and one boring high-intensity mental task hack): Mature: 12094
Young+Learn: 392 Unseen: 59142
Suspended: 11528
The decks take a bit of fiddling to ensure you have the correct amount of cards setup. Initially in my first two months, I had too many ‘new cards’ set up. This would lead to a massive escalation in required time (peaked at 90 minutes in 2 weeks). I then cut new cards, just specified 10-15 new a day, depending on the deck. This evened me out to 30 minutes a day.
One caveat, I don’t skip a day, ever. When I go hiking, I pre-learn the 2-3 days that I’ll be away from any technology in order to pre-empt coming home to a disheartening deck. There are tablet and phone apps available, but usually when traveling I don’t want to wake up to Anki when there is a view. :)
Currently I don’t really have a workflow for card addition, although in the past I have mainly used CSV files that were nicely laid out and quality checked before importing. I’ve also done some BeautifulSoup scraping for website data extraction and word frequencies from books. I also use DuoLingo daily (German again), and the words and useful phrases I typically just dump into org-mode for transfer later (usually once weekly) when I have time.
Initially when creating and managing your decks I would suggest making backups often as sometimes syncing makes weird things happen (mostly media related disappearances between linux desktop client and android tablet) but other than that I love this tool.
For language word lists, I have also created a script that pushes the word or phrase to Google Translate (yes, yes, terms of service fingers in ears) and downloads and saves an MP3 locally. I know AwesomeTTS does most of this, but it is nice to have the media available in countries where internet access is at best intermittent and always capped.
I hope some of this helps. Have fun.