Thanks for posting this and I wish you the best in your seemingly valuable quest.
One key point: are you using spaced repetition? The spacing and testing effects are valuable memory tools, indeed, and you would be remiss if you did not at least try it. I have some biology Anki cards here to get you started in case you are interested: http://andrewtmckenzie.com/sr/#biology. Also feel free to PM me.
The deck violates the laws of spaced repetition that Piotr Wozniak proposed.
name this amino acid (optionally, one letter code)
There no reason why the word optionally should appear in this way on an Anki card.
The answer to a card has to be always the same answer.
There should be one card for the full name and a different card for the one letter code.
Also there no need to write “name this amino acid”. “Fullname?” Works as well and is shorter. Short cards mean that you spend less time reading them and can process them faster.
There no reason why the word optionally should appear in this way on an Anki card. The answer to a card has to be always the same answer.
I have other cards for which I associate the one letter code with the name, so they mean the same thing to me.
Though I disagree with your example, I do violate the “laws” of SR in lots of other ways, for example including multiple questions on a card. There is a trade-off between the time to make a card and the relative benefit of having more spread out cards. I also think that “chunking” information together in memory sequences can be useful.
Also there no need to write “name this amino acid”. “Fullname?” Works as well and is shorter. Short cards mean that you spend less time reading them and can process them faster.
Completely agree.
Can you link to some of your cards so we can get a sense of how you’ve made them?
There is a trade-off between the time to make a card and the relative benefit of having more spread out cards.
In that case I still don’t see why you don’t decide for either the one letter code or the fullname.
Wozniaks idea is that if you use different way to get to the answer then you won’t strenghen you memory in the same way as when you always use the same way to answer a card.
That means the algortihm won’t correctly calculate the time you need to repeat the card because it doesn’t know whether which answer you gave to the card. That in turn leads to forgotten cards which is bad because you need to start again with them.
Can you link to some of your cards so we can get a sense of how you’ve made them?
I haven’t taken care of keeping out copyrighted pictures and sorted my cards decently. There’s also a mix of languages. So at the moment I have nothing that easily publishable as a collection. Maybe I will in the future.
I’ve got Anki downloaded, but I haven’t used it yet—I’ll definitely give it a shot now. Not having to make cards before I can start studying makes getting myself to try a lot easier, thanks.
Not having to make cards before I can start studying makes getting myself to try a lot easier, thanks.
Actually probably not. Making your own cards is valuable when reading a text because it forces you to actually go into detail and investigate which information is in the text.
Anki exists to prevent forgetting information that you learned. If you try to learn cards that contain information which you don’t understand you will waste time.
Thanks for posting this and I wish you the best in your seemingly valuable quest.
One key point: are you using spaced repetition? The spacing and testing effects are valuable memory tools, indeed, and you would be remiss if you did not at least try it. I have some biology Anki cards here to get you started in case you are interested: http://andrewtmckenzie.com/sr/#biology. Also feel free to PM me.
The deck violates the laws of spaced repetition that Piotr Wozniak proposed.
There no reason why the word optionally should appear in this way on an Anki card. The answer to a card has to be always the same answer.
There should be one card for the full name and a different card for the one letter code.
Also there no need to write “name this amino acid”. “Fullname?” Works as well and is shorter. Short cards mean that you spend less time reading them and can process them faster.
I have other cards for which I associate the one letter code with the name, so they mean the same thing to me.
Though I disagree with your example, I do violate the “laws” of SR in lots of other ways, for example including multiple questions on a card. There is a trade-off between the time to make a card and the relative benefit of having more spread out cards. I also think that “chunking” information together in memory sequences can be useful.
Completely agree.
Can you link to some of your cards so we can get a sense of how you’ve made them?
In that case I still don’t see why you don’t decide for either the one letter code or the fullname.
Wozniaks idea is that if you use different way to get to the answer then you won’t strenghen you memory in the same way as when you always use the same way to answer a card.
That means the algortihm won’t correctly calculate the time you need to repeat the card because it doesn’t know whether which answer you gave to the card. That in turn leads to forgotten cards which is bad because you need to start again with them.
I haven’t taken care of keeping out copyrighted pictures and sorted my cards decently. There’s also a mix of languages. So at the moment I have nothing that easily publishable as a collection. Maybe I will in the future.
I’ve got Anki downloaded, but I haven’t used it yet—I’ll definitely give it a shot now. Not having to make cards before I can start studying makes getting myself to try a lot easier, thanks.
Actually probably not. Making your own cards is valuable when reading a text because it forces you to actually go into detail and investigate which information is in the text.
Anki exists to prevent forgetting information that you learned. If you try to learn cards that contain information which you don’t understand you will waste time.