Great post! I am extremely happy to see someone using Anki like I do.
I have a 800 day streak with hundreds of cards on average per day and my use case include all of what you do.
I also do the following :
any kind of insights this ended up the most indispensable use of Anki for me as I can iterate ideas: instead of having weekly ideas on random stuff I end up having ideas over previou ideas. This really increased my reflection on a lot of topic a lot! The way I do this is by just adding an n+1 cloze deletion to my existing card.
bookmarks add my bookmarks not only in my browser but also in anki otherwise I forget that I found this shiny new website / tool
Motor skills like tying knots, how to do a ranger roll to pack things neatly, etc
reminders I have a deck that shows the same few cards every day (like a mantra), a deck for cards that repeat over 1 week, 1 month, 6 months etc. This is easy by tweaking the settings and allows to put reminders like “last time you went to this dentist was [DATE], your next date should be around [DATE] and you should tell him that [CONDITION] etc”.
door codes of people
any kind of repair that I did For example “what kind of glue did you use to fix [something]? {{c1::gel neoprene glue}}”, the cool thing is that when 3 weeks later I find out that it was a terrible idea and some other glue would have been better, I just add “{{c2::Actually it broke after X days and I finally repaired it with NEW_GLUE}}”. Very handy for me. Another example was the type of screws I used when I made shelves for my girlfriend out of wood. And any kind of mistakes I made along the way.
the location of some files in my computer for example I very rarely need to use a password wordlist but don’t want to forget that I’m storing it handy in some folder.
disclaimer: I think I have a pretty bad memory to begin with so I expect my gains from Anki to be greater than for most other people.
Great post! I am extremely happy to see someone using Anki like I do.
I have a 800 day streak with hundreds of cards on average per day and my use case include all of what you do.
I also do the following :
any kind of insights this ended up the most indispensable use of Anki for me as I can iterate ideas: instead of having weekly ideas on random stuff I end up having ideas over previou ideas. This really increased my reflection on a lot of topic a lot! The way I do this is by just adding an n+1 cloze deletion to my existing card.
bookmarks add my bookmarks not only in my browser but also in anki otherwise I forget that I found this shiny new website / tool
Motor skills like tying knots, how to do a ranger roll to pack things neatly, etc
reminders I have a deck that shows the same few cards every day (like a mantra), a deck for cards that repeat over 1 week, 1 month, 6 months etc. This is easy by tweaking the settings and allows to put reminders like “last time you went to this dentist was [DATE], your next date should be around [DATE] and you should tell him that [CONDITION] etc”.
door codes of people
any kind of repair that I did For example “what kind of glue did you use to fix [something]? {{c1::gel neoprene glue}}”, the cool thing is that when 3 weeks later I find out that it was a terrible idea and some other glue would have been better, I just add “{{c2::Actually it broke after X days and I finally repaired it with NEW_GLUE}}”. Very handy for me. Another example was the type of screws I used when I made shelves for my girlfriend out of wood. And any kind of mistakes I made along the way.
the location of some files in my computer for example I very rarely need to use a password wordlist but don’t want to forget that I’m storing it handy in some folder.
disclaimer: I think I have a pretty bad memory to begin with so I expect my gains from Anki to be greater than for most other people.
An 800-day streak is awesome!! Nice work!
Thanks for sharing how you use SRS; I always love thinking about all the creative possibilities for it.
I also consider myself to have a lower-than-average natural memory, but I find spaced repetition incredibly valuable!