huge anki decks
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:04 pm
Hi,
I've been playing with Anki again, trying to find a way to make it work for me both for languages and my medicine studies.
I need to make my own decks, for reasons described in my log (but those are very easy to sum up and not different from those other people make their own decks for: there are no decks that fit my needs perfectly).
The problem is: I need huge decks and lots of reviews. And I have a sort of a deadline for learning various stuff. And I should have started long time ago. Actually, I should have started 100 years ago, given the amount of stuff I need to learn.
I've been following various threads about anki. But it is difficult to find a particular information as there are some 950 threads about anki on this forum alone (and there is a lot of stuff on subreddit anki, and medical anki, and on blogs of successful language learners.) I apologize, if I am asking something that has been answered a dozen times already, but I really couldn't find this.
I cannot afford the pace of 5 or 10 cards a day. But I cannot learn 2000 half-familiar terms in a weekend either, like I did once (it worked miraculously, but it wasn't a pleasant thing to do and it wasn't sustainable). I've read of medicine students successfully adding 300 cards a day, but I don't know whether I am that good.
So, what would I like to know:
-using the basic algorhytm, how many reviews should I expect in the following weeks and months, if I learn 20, 50, 100, 150 cards a day?
-can I set different algorhytms for easy and difficult decks?
-does the algorhytm still work, if I don't follow it exactly and instead of doing a number of reviews a day, I would measure time, like 30/60/90 minutes a day?
-any tips on remembering difficult cards?
-Does anki become a habit and easier to do after some time? Am I really a non-anki type of person (trying hard to change it), or is it just my laziness and lack of discipline that everyone feels and has to fight?
-what LARGEST deck or amount of data have you learnt with anki? How long did it take you?
Have you noticed your memory improving? Sure, you must be better at all the stuff you have memorised, but has your ability to memorise things improved with practice?
My learning ability has decreased a lot during the last few years. For various reasons, some are reversible, some may be not, but it is not useful to spend hours thinking about what I used to be like, I should just accept my brain as it is now and work with that. So, I would like to know whether I can simply improve from this point on, or whether I should simply accept this is gonna be just as hard in half a year as it is now. Is it subjectively likely to be easier to memorise new cards?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and answering (or reanswering)
I've been playing with Anki again, trying to find a way to make it work for me both for languages and my medicine studies.
I need to make my own decks, for reasons described in my log (but those are very easy to sum up and not different from those other people make their own decks for: there are no decks that fit my needs perfectly).
The problem is: I need huge decks and lots of reviews. And I have a sort of a deadline for learning various stuff. And I should have started long time ago. Actually, I should have started 100 years ago, given the amount of stuff I need to learn.
I've been following various threads about anki. But it is difficult to find a particular information as there are some 950 threads about anki on this forum alone (and there is a lot of stuff on subreddit anki, and medical anki, and on blogs of successful language learners.) I apologize, if I am asking something that has been answered a dozen times already, but I really couldn't find this.
I cannot afford the pace of 5 or 10 cards a day. But I cannot learn 2000 half-familiar terms in a weekend either, like I did once (it worked miraculously, but it wasn't a pleasant thing to do and it wasn't sustainable). I've read of medicine students successfully adding 300 cards a day, but I don't know whether I am that good.
So, what would I like to know:
-using the basic algorhytm, how many reviews should I expect in the following weeks and months, if I learn 20, 50, 100, 150 cards a day?
-can I set different algorhytms for easy and difficult decks?
-does the algorhytm still work, if I don't follow it exactly and instead of doing a number of reviews a day, I would measure time, like 30/60/90 minutes a day?
-any tips on remembering difficult cards?
-Does anki become a habit and easier to do after some time? Am I really a non-anki type of person (trying hard to change it), or is it just my laziness and lack of discipline that everyone feels and has to fight?
-what LARGEST deck or amount of data have you learnt with anki? How long did it take you?
Have you noticed your memory improving? Sure, you must be better at all the stuff you have memorised, but has your ability to memorise things improved with practice?
My learning ability has decreased a lot during the last few years. For various reasons, some are reversible, some may be not, but it is not useful to spend hours thinking about what I used to be like, I should just accept my brain as it is now and work with that. So, I would like to know whether I can simply improve from this point on, or whether I should simply accept this is gonna be just as hard in half a year as it is now. Is it subjectively likely to be easier to memorise new cards?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and answering (or reanswering)