I’ve been learning with Anki for Exams for Years now and I have never managed to keep learning them after the exams. I’ve been using very few cards, and been splitting them more and more, but I guess not enough.
In my experience, however, some bigger cards are needed against frustration, but to be kept at a minimum. I call them ‘Overview Cards’. For instance, if you split a mathematical proof into bite sized chunks, the way I inferred from your post would be to have a card ‘Step after X’ between every two steps. This worked well when the intervals were small, but with larger intervals (and the random ordering the anki scheduler injects) I found myself losing track of the overall structure of the proofs. I then had to go back to browsing to find the linear sequence. I find this more exhausting than just learning the structure of the proof. Please tell me if you had experiences that contradict my observation :D
Simplifying these Cards with the tree-method is useful, though. Hierarchical organization is everything!
Talking of Hierachical Organization: You can Store it all in a Big Ol’ Card Container, but use subdecks! They can be a useful addition to the prompt if your front side is too ambiguous (e.g. definitions of variables). In your card template, just include {{Deck}} with smaller font size and lower opacity above your {{Front}}. You can also include a subchapter field to your cards, and include it the same way. Just make sure that the subchapter is not the literal solution to your prompt, this happened to me once or twice.
Next, concerning the prompt types. While you should not color the prompts themselves, you can indeed give specific colors to prompt-types you often use. For example “context” can be blue and so on. This does not lead to overfitting in my experience, but reduce cognitive load in recognizing the prompt types. (And colors make everything better for ADHD folks by just being more stimulating. (source)[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1087054711430332])
I’ve been learning with Anki for Exams for Years now and I have never managed to keep learning them after the exams. I’ve been using very few cards, and been splitting them more and more, but I guess not enough.
In my experience, however, some bigger cards are needed against frustration, but to be kept at a minimum. I call them ‘Overview Cards’. For instance, if you split a mathematical proof into bite sized chunks, the way I inferred from your post would be to have a card ‘Step after X’ between every two steps. This worked well when the intervals were small, but with larger intervals (and the random ordering the anki scheduler injects) I found myself losing track of the overall structure of the proofs. I then had to go back to browsing to find the linear sequence. I find this more exhausting than just learning the structure of the proof. Please tell me if you had experiences that contradict my observation :D
Simplifying these Cards with the tree-method is useful, though. Hierarchical organization is everything!
Talking of Hierachical Organization: You can Store it all in a Big Ol’ Card Container, but use subdecks! They can be a useful addition to the prompt if your front side is too ambiguous (e.g. definitions of variables). In your card template, just include {{Deck}} with smaller font size and lower opacity above your {{Front}}. You can also include a subchapter field to your cards, and include it the same way. Just make sure that the subchapter is not the literal solution to your prompt, this happened to me once or twice.
Next, concerning the prompt types. While you should not color the prompts themselves, you can indeed give specific colors to prompt-types you often use. For example “context” can be blue and so on. This does not lead to overfitting in my experience, but reduce cognitive load in recognizing the prompt types. (And colors make everything better for ADHD folks by just being more stimulating. (source)[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1087054711430332])