I used Anki a bunch during university, with some moderate success, but always ended up adding too many cards, plus content too rough to be considered a proper card, to the point that I eventually stopped using the app, even though it definitely worked when I put in the time to use it.
I even made lots of Anki cards about LW sequences content, with the same results.
… Now that I think about it, there’s probably one (or ten) AI services by now which can turn arbitrary text into Anki cards, too. I’m skeptical how well they might work, but they presumably can’t do any worse than dumping text into cards and not editing them at all.
I’m actually working on this problem right now. There are a lot of those services, but they usually generate bad cards. I’m researching how to use AI to make good cards.
This essay has some tips on that, starting from the “More patterns of Anki use”. There are also various LW articles about Anki under the Spaced Repetition tag, some of them such as My Anki Patterns have card design tips.
I used Anki a bunch during university, with some moderate success, but always ended up adding too many cards, plus content too rough to be considered a proper card, to the point that I eventually stopped using the app, even though it definitely worked when I put in the time to use it.
I even made lots of Anki cards about LW sequences content, with the same results.
… Now that I think about it, there’s probably one (or ten) AI services by now which can turn arbitrary text into Anki cards, too. I’m skeptical how well they might work, but they presumably can’t do any worse than dumping text into cards and not editing them at all.
I’m actually working on this problem right now. There are a lot of those services, but they usually generate bad cards. I’m researching how to use AI to make good cards.
This essay has some tips on that, starting from the “More patterns of Anki use”. There are also various LW articles about Anki under the Spaced Repetition tag, some of them such as My Anki Patterns have card design tips.