Alternatively, I most often see rote memorization recommended by people studying fields that are inherently somewhat organised.
It’s easy to see why anki might work well for something like “memorizing lots of words in kanji” because the work of organising concepts into buckets is already embedded in the kanji and kanji radicals.
It’s less obvious to me how you could, for example, learn optimal riichi mahjong with this type of method; and probably because of that I’ve never seen someone recommend that.
Alternatively, I most often see rote memorization recommended by people studying fields that are inherently somewhat organised.
It’s easy to see why anki might work well for something like “memorizing lots of words in kanji” because the work of organising concepts into buckets is already embedded in the kanji and kanji radicals.
It’s less obvious to me how you could, for example, learn optimal riichi mahjong with this type of method; and probably because of that I’ve never seen someone recommend that.