QuantumForest

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QuantumForest 15 Jul 2025 14:05 UTC
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on: An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly
My favourite tip I rarely see mentioned in Anki discussions: add a hidden source field to your custom card template and paste the original source or reference or hyperlink it.
This is useful for several reasons:
1. You can easily find the source to read more about the subject simply by editing the card in the app.
2. You don’t have to clutter the card with info about the source if it is not essential to the card.
3. In addition to the source info, you can add your own notes about why this information was useful or why you chose this specific source etc. You can give additional context such as “This principle was explained to me by Person X when we talked about Y”
4. Keep in mind you can save large amount of info in the field since it is not supposed to be visible during review and text and images take relatively little space on devices nowadays. Thus you can copypaste entire paragraphs/pages and multiple pictures etc^[1] to have the source info easily accessible without having to the original source later, it makes it easier to:
  1. edit the card later if you find it confusing or unclear.
  2. read the original context where the thing was discussed or explained.
(edit: added a missing word)
1. ^
  If it is based on or created from an LLM conversation or an LLM summary, likewise you can just copypaste the conversation there, not just hyperlink it.

QuantumForest 15 Jul 2025 13:21 UTC
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in reply to: BryceStansfield’s comment on: An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly
Similarly I often increase my review limit if I have extra time to review more. I’ve added^[1] Custom Study to my Frequent Actions^[2] in the Anki app so that I easily can increase the daily card limit whenever I feel like it.
1. ^
  or maybe it was always there and I added other actions, I cannot remember.
2. ^
  one can access this menu by pressing the ⚙️ symbol in the bottom right corner