Anki + colour + retention

[Ccaesar]

Hello everyone
Now that I have holidays I am trying to follow some of the princepals introduced in the book atomic habits

1) Make it easy + make it wantable
In this regard I am setting up anki for conquering. The basic design of cards is pretty boring, so I started wondering has any researched been done into what colours might improve your retention when learning?
I googled a bit and apparently the colour holds the power to improve your memory and retention.
https://www.color-meanings.com/how-does ... ct-memory/
Has anyone else had any experience with this?

[Kraut]

I have been experimenting with colours a bit. What you see is not coherent. I'm planning, when archiving texts for repitition, to have only one! text with annotations and translations, passages etc in different colours. So that I will only have a text (no longer bidirectional) plus the translation via audio in the repetition archive.
Texts 1 and 3 come close to what I intend to have.

[Ccaesar]

I have been experimenting with colours a bit. What you see is not coherent. I'm planning, when archiving texts for repitition, to have only one! text with annotations and translations, passages etc in different colours. So that I will only have a text (no longer bidirectional) plus the translation via audio in the repetition archive.
Texts 1 and 3 come close to what I intend to have.

That looks really interesting! Will you keep a log on your experiment -- have you already noticed a differnce?

[白田龍]

I use color in Chinese flashcards to diferentiate characters with multiple pronunciation, for ex, the character 強 can be read qiang3 qiang2 or jiang4, so my cards will look like this:

強拉: qiǎng​ lā

強烈: qiáng ​liè

倔強: jué​ jiàng

This has made characters that have multiple readings, wich were giving me a lot of trouble, as easy as any single reading character.

I will remove the colour as the cards mature, but this is a new deck, I haven't got to this point yet.