Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. More efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. More efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. When you're starting out with Anki or another SRS, you might wonder how much you can expect to learn with this newly efficient method of studying. Because spaced repetition follows a mathematical formula, it's possible to do a decent job of estimating answers to these kinds of questions – certainly much better than you can manage for any other study method I know of. So remember these principles — when you do, you'll already be ahead of 99% of Anki users with Time Debt mindsets. Atomic means (ideally) cueing one idea per card, usually done in two ways: Increased specificity. Breaking a complex idea down to multiple specific ones and creating cards for each. (easiest) Increased.
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The LeanAnki Manifesto
We don't blindly strive for efficiency — we strive for freedom. The freedom to do other things we care about, or the freedom to answer exams knowing full well that you'll pass.
The first step to efficient studying is by addressing the things that are making you learn inefficiently in the first place — NOT by 'learning 10X faster' or 'becoming 10X more productive.'
Specifically, efficient studying needs you to address the processes that create waste:
- Having a poor or nonexistent productivity system to organize actionable information and externalize mental open loops
- Having a poor processing strategy that causes restudying
- Knowledge gaps (that get bigger over time) due to forgetting and/or poor processing
In order to do that, we need to get exposed to a different way of thinking.
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Michael Nielsen — one of the pioneers of quantum computing — said in his essay:
Using Anki effectively and efficiently also means thinking like an Anki Virtuoso:
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- The Anki Virtuoso recognizes that Anki is just a tool, not a magic pill. Anki is an effective tool to commit information into your long-term memory, but it is not the end-all be all of studying. Anki alone won't save you if you suck at managing your workload and/or your information processing strategies are wasteful.
- The Anki Virtuoso knows that Flashcards are Time Assets. Quality flashcards cost you a little bit more time now, but save you exponentially more time in the future. Bad flashcards are the opposite — they save time now, but cost you exponentially more time in the future. (Often in the form of forgetting and failing)
- The Anki Virtuoso realizes that Effective Anki studying requires skill. Much like pen and paper, simple tools like Anki require formulation and study skills if you want to do more with it.
- The Anki Virtuoso knows that Anki is the lead domino of accelerated learning. Anki is the ONE thing in learning that makes learning easier and makes all nighters unnecessary. Retention makes learning easier, and spaced repetition makes the regular all-nighters unnecessary.
As you can imagine, memorization and understanding work hand-in-hand — none is 'better' than the other.
And because that's the case, it means that getting increasingly better academic results is a product of a continuously improving study system, rather than a longer laundry list of 'best' quick-fix hacks.
As systems-first thinkers, we prefer other solutions: Principles, common sense, and iteration.
These solutions bring better results in the real world as compared to obsessing over every little 'research-based hack' and shiny 'new tools for students', or worse, copying what top students do.
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'One-size-fits-all solutions' like these don't exist. They're delusions at best.
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Diagnose the underlying study problem first and then design a proper solution for your context.
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To smarter studying,
– Al Khan
