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Yeah. Anki (and flashcards in general) are great for helping you remember something _you_ learned (from a book, video, class, etc.). Not for transferring knowle
by billti 1y ago
Yeah. Anki (and flashcards in general) are great for helping you remember something _you_ learned (from a book, video, class, etc.). Not for transferring knowledge someone else learned.
Writing my own cards as I'm learning is the only way I've found it effective.
- treetalker 1y agoFirst learn the material. Then use SRS to schedule the practice of effortfully recalling the material just before you would have forgotten it. I think too many people use SRS to learn the material instead. As I recall, the creator of Supermemo had a list of 20 suggestions or so, in which he urged people to first comprehend the information; then to learn it; then to memorize it; and then to rehearse it (SRS) so as not to forget it.