Curated. I’ve periodically attempted Anki and bounced off. This post got me somewhat excited to try again, feeling a bit more in control of it this time.
The “keep it short” advice certainly resonates. The ideas on how to handle “knowledge thickets” felt practical and useful.
Ironically I do think it might have made more sense to break it into multiple posts, not only because it’s quite long and each section felt reasonably self-contained, but also, I think there’s a “space-repetition” like principle on LessWrong where, like, people are more likely to absorb an overall idea if it’s repeated across multiple days/weeks on LessWrong.
I do wish this post felt more oriented about why you might want to be using Anki. I like the focus on “what’s a realistic trigger”, but most of the examples felt kind of random and not like facts I’d actually likely want to remember. (By contrast, I liked Turntrout’s old post on Self Teaching which presented Anki in a more goal-directed way)
thanks Raymond! agree this post would be better if it was split up & repeating things, more like approximating a “course”. this was just the level of effort i happened to feel inspired to put in.
my mission with this post was mostly to fix problems if one IS using Anki, not to convince anyone to use it. since writing, responses have seemed like the why might’ve been interesting for several people tho!
Curated. I’ve periodically attempted Anki and bounced off. This post got me somewhat excited to try again, feeling a bit more in control of it this time.
The “keep it short” advice certainly resonates. The ideas on how to handle “knowledge thickets” felt practical and useful.
Ironically I do think it might have made more sense to break it into multiple posts, not only because it’s quite long and each section felt reasonably self-contained, but also, I think there’s a “space-repetition” like principle on LessWrong where, like, people are more likely to absorb an overall idea if it’s repeated across multiple days/weeks on LessWrong.
I do wish this post felt more oriented about why you might want to be using Anki. I like the focus on “what’s a realistic trigger”, but most of the examples felt kind of random and not like facts I’d actually likely want to remember. (By contrast, I liked Turntrout’s old post on Self Teaching which presented Anki in a more goal-directed way)
thanks Raymond! agree this post would be better if it was split up & repeating things, more like approximating a “course”. this was just the level of effort i happened to feel inspired to put in.
my mission with this post was mostly to fix problems if one IS using Anki, not to convince anyone to use it. since writing, responses have seemed like the why might’ve been interesting for several people tho!
I’d expect what your goals are to have a pretty noticeable effect on how to optimize your anki.