I got my Vim-edited textfile sourced Anki deck going with around 1000 cards now. I seeded the deck with stuff that isn’t very serious or difficult, but helps keep the gears turning for the habit to form:
Alan Perlis epigrams, I’m doing random quotations cloze-style, the front shows enough of the beginning of the quotation to establish context, and the back shows the rest. Seems to work well enough.
The periodic table of elements in atomic number / name and abbreviation format (I used the mnemonic major system to learn these with just the number to go on).
The 125 design principles in name / description format from Universal Principles of Design revised edition.
The 100 design principles in name / description format from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.
Select best practice items in cloze deletion format from The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition.
The Morse code alphabet in both directions.
Select notable historical events in event / year format from the Wikipedia world history timelines.
The 100 famous paintings list from decks by LW users to test cards with images. (Some of these seem to be mislabeled, or I messed up my import.)
These should be providing me with fodder for daily reviews for some months, so there’s time to come up with a study routine for regularly generating more cards before the whole thing starts feeling pointless and I start skipping the reviews.
So far the text file input has worked quite well, though it does probably help to have a programmer’s mindset to text files, where the difference between a physical tab character and several space characters is an extremely big deal, for example. Being able to use text editor macros to batch edit a sequence of similar cards can help a lot. Haven’t done much latexy math input yet, so I don’t know if I’ll run into frustrations with that later.
Anki for Android has gotten better with the image files too. I don’t need to do the magic stuff from some years back anymore, just having the media folder next to my import textfile seems to work, and the latex renderings get passed more or less automatically to the Android version.
I got my Vim-edited textfile sourced Anki deck going with around 1000 cards now. I seeded the deck with stuff that isn’t very serious or difficult, but helps keep the gears turning for the habit to form:
Alan Perlis epigrams, I’m doing random quotations cloze-style, the front shows enough of the beginning of the quotation to establish context, and the back shows the rest. Seems to work well enough.
Default keywords for 0 to 99 in the mnemonic major system.
The periodic table of elements in atomic number / name and abbreviation format (I used the mnemonic major system to learn these with just the number to go on).
The 125 design principles in name / description format from Universal Principles of Design revised edition.
The 100 design principles in name / description format from The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.
Select best practice items in cloze deletion format from The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition.
The Morse code alphabet in both directions.
Select notable historical events in event / year format from the Wikipedia world history timelines.
The 100 famous paintings list from decks by LW users to test cards with images. (Some of these seem to be mislabeled, or I messed up my import.)
These should be providing me with fodder for daily reviews for some months, so there’s time to come up with a study routine for regularly generating more cards before the whole thing starts feeling pointless and I start skipping the reviews.
So far the text file input has worked quite well, though it does probably help to have a programmer’s mindset to text files, where the difference between a physical tab character and several space characters is an extremely big deal, for example. Being able to use text editor macros to batch edit a sequence of similar cards can help a lot. Haven’t done much latexy math input yet, so I don’t know if I’ll run into frustrations with that later.
Anki for Android has gotten better with the image files too. I don’t need to do the magic stuff from some years back anymore, just having the media folder next to my import textfile seems to work, and the latex renderings get passed more or less automatically to the Android version.