How do you push content to Anki effectively? I’ve been thinking about using it to study too, for example scientific papers (with lots of equations), but copying content by hand seems to be tedious… I also thought about converting them to images and then slicing them up, but that doesn’t seem to be the best choice for a small phone screen. Or how do your decks look like?
A sample deck made up of my “psychology”, “operating systems” and “machine learning” tags.
Note that some of those cards are old, and pretty bad: e.g. I have a card saying “name three things that villain hysterias have in common”. I should have broken that up to three separate cards, each of which listed two of those things and told me to fill in the third. And that’s what I’ve done with some of the later cards. It’s also worth noting that I probably did too many operating systems cards when studying for that exam—while I aced it, it was so much work that I’ve been reluctant to touch Anki afterwards, and currently have around 700 due cards...
cool thanks! It’s nice to have a look at a real-world example too… (btw do you do the breaking-up of cards by hand or using some plugin?)
Meanwhile, I started experimenting with using screenshots from pdf fiiles (equations, mainly) and dropping them into anki cards. It seems to work well so far and it’s faster than I thought (though I haven’t yet tried actually studying them, not to speak of doing it on a phone...)
How do you push content to Anki effectively? I’ve been thinking about using it to study too, for example scientific papers (with lots of equations), but copying content by hand seems to be tedious… I also thought about converting them to images and then slicing them up, but that doesn’t seem to be the best choice for a small phone screen. Or how do your decks look like?
A sample deck made up of my “psychology”, “operating systems” and “machine learning” tags.
Note that some of those cards are old, and pretty bad: e.g. I have a card saying “name three things that villain hysterias have in common”. I should have broken that up to three separate cards, each of which listed two of those things and told me to fill in the third. And that’s what I’ve done with some of the later cards. It’s also worth noting that I probably did too many operating systems cards when studying for that exam—while I aced it, it was so much work that I’ve been reluctant to touch Anki afterwards, and currently have around 700 due cards...
cool thanks! It’s nice to have a look at a real-world example too… (btw do you do the breaking-up of cards by hand or using some plugin?)
Meanwhile, I started experimenting with using screenshots from pdf fiiles (equations, mainly) and dropping them into anki cards. It seems to work well so far and it’s faster than I thought (though I haven’t yet tried actually studying them, not to speak of doing it on a phone...)
Entirely by hand.