I downloaded the Anki installer a couple of days ago, but haven’t started poking and prodding at it yet. Does anyone reading this thread have any advice for a potential new user of this program, or any Spaced Repetition software in general?
For example, is there an Anki/SR forum you’d recommend for simple beginner questions?
(For examples of such questions: “Is there a decent, non-expensive version for iOS that you’d recommend?”, or “If I wanted to try SR to start memorizing a subset of Lojban called Cniglic ( http://www.datapacrat.com/cniglic/ ), what should I know before I start filling out all the English/Lojban word-pair notes?”.)
The SRS page of the wiki has lots of links to useful things. The Supermemo pages especially have good advice on formulating knowledge as cards.
A few years ago I tried learning Esperanto via SRS, and it seemed to work well, but I stopped reviewing the cards because I realized that it was basically a waste of time—it was less entertaining than other sources of entertainment (especially once you’ve learnt all the cards and only have reviews left to do), and useless relative to other types of work I could do. I also tried Lojban but gave up for the same reason. Of course, your mileage/situation may differ.
I’ve also been interested in finding an Anki/SRS forum, but haven’t found 1 specific place yet. Many people at Quantified Self also use it & they have forums, but they aren’t extremely active.
I downloaded the Anki installer a couple of days ago, but haven’t started poking and prodding at it yet. Does anyone reading this thread have any advice for a potential new user of this program, or any Spaced Repetition software in general?
For example, is there an Anki/SR forum you’d recommend for simple beginner questions?
(For examples of such questions: “Is there a decent, non-expensive version for iOS that you’d recommend?”, or “If I wanted to try SR to start memorizing a subset of Lojban called Cniglic ( http://www.datapacrat.com/cniglic/ ), what should I know before I start filling out all the English/Lojban word-pair notes?”.)
I put a fair amount of advice into http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
The SRS page of the wiki has lots of links to useful things. The Supermemo pages especially have good advice on formulating knowledge as cards.
A few years ago I tried learning Esperanto via SRS, and it seemed to work well, but I stopped reviewing the cards because I realized that it was basically a waste of time—it was less entertaining than other sources of entertainment (especially once you’ve learnt all the cards and only have reviews left to do), and useless relative to other types of work I could do. I also tried Lojban but gave up for the same reason. Of course, your mileage/situation may differ.
I’ve also been interested in finding an Anki/SRS forum, but haven’t found 1 specific place yet. Many people at Quantified Self also use it & they have forums, but they aren’t extremely active.
Yes, if you want to get specific help on using Anki the Quantified Self forum is the perfect address.