Anki as a bucket for short insights, with very good retrievability (from PC and phone): click “browse”, and search. (I don’t use it as much to memorize, though I really like to just be able to pop something out without noticing the ever growing mess, yet knowing that everything will EVENTUALLY come out. Also, I love to be able to easily set if I want to see the card again sooner or later. Honestly, I wish these kinds of systems weren’t limitted to “memorization apps”, and didn’t try to be so automatic in their scheduling of the pieces of content.)
Occasionally, Freeplane for mindmaps. jrnl for quick and short date-stamped logs. Probably others...
I am not too satisfied though, so this post will be useful when I have the time to give it another shot.
It’s kinda weird to me how limited the options seem to be for flashcards and annotation/marginalia. While plenty of things perform the core functionality, I haven’t seen anywhere near as many interesting experiments with these formats as I have with outliners.
And for flashcards particularly? You’d think it’d be the simplest damn thing to program!
I’m not much of an index card person, but there seem to be a lot of people who swear on elaborate index-card set-ups. That I haven’t seen more of them implemented as software confuses me too.
(It does seem like it would be a good use of flashcards to set up a rudimentary priority queue, or stack. Possibly with added randomness. I’m honestly a little surprised it doesn’t allow that.)
I’ve been mostly using a mix
vimwiki for the Babble
TeXMacs for the Prune
Anki as a bucket for short insights, with very good retrievability (from PC and phone): click “browse”, and search. (I don’t use it as much to memorize, though I really like to just be able to pop something out without noticing the ever growing mess, yet knowing that everything will EVENTUALLY come out. Also, I love to be able to easily set if I want to see the card again sooner or later. Honestly, I wish these kinds of systems weren’t limitted to “memorization apps”, and didn’t try to be so automatic in their scheduling of the pieces of content.)
Occasionally, Freeplane for mindmaps. jrnl for quick and short date-stamped logs. Probably others...
I am not too satisfied though, so this post will be useful when I have the time to give it another shot.
It’s kinda weird to me how limited the options seem to be for flashcards and annotation/marginalia. While plenty of things perform the core functionality, I haven’t seen anywhere near as many interesting experiments with these formats as I have with outliners.
And for flashcards particularly? You’d think it’d be the simplest damn thing to program!
I’m not much of an index card person, but there seem to be a lot of people who swear on elaborate index-card set-ups. That I haven’t seen more of them implemented as software confuses me too.
(It does seem like it would be a good use of flashcards to set up a rudimentary priority queue, or stack. Possibly with added randomness. I’m honestly a little surprised it doesn’t allow that.)