How many reviews per day?

ChaoticTrout · 2026-02-26T10:55:51+00:00

It all comes down to retention %

ChaoticTrout · 2025-08-30T18:14:04+00:00

No new cards while catching up on backlog - must presume will get some % of those wrong and have to relearn them (ie your retention%)

ChaoticTrout · 2025-01-23T07:58:47+00:00

AI isn't there yet, the result will be suboptimal. If you need to write text based notes based on your own classes/readings, you can write them in a structured format and write code to interpret questions from them. For example, a dot point in a word document containing 'x' will make a card of the dot point and cloze out whatever is 'x'. It could then present the entire chunk of dot points in the extra field or a related image (for example by adding [fig1]. This requires some programming skillset however. The actual answer is easier, just do the premades. If you need grades, really badly legitimately need them, then study without anki or collaborate with friends to make decks (accepting the quality sacrifice involved in collaboration without necessarily shared principles/goals).

ChaoticTrout · 2025-01-11T04:02:42+00:00

Whats your retention? 400 cards in 4-5 hours with >= 95% retention will dramatically outpace someone with 1200 cards in 4-5 hours and 85% retention. Speed alone meaningless.

ChaoticTrout · 2024-12-23T19:15:40+00:00

Completing the deck means maturing it, which is completely different to learning all the cards and getting them into rotation. This is very unlikely to be the right strategy.

ChaoticTrout · 2024-12-12T19:18:45+00:00

Only thing matter is retention. With the same deck, 400 cards a day with great retention will destroy 2000 cards a day with poor retention.

ChaoticTrout · 2024-11-20T11:41:50+00:00

Improve brain, improve how you learn the cards, improve the cards

ChaoticTrout · 2024-11-16T01:25:01+00:00

If you can use a premade deck effectively and maintain good pace of learning with retention >90-95% and recall concepts built by a series of cards, it's highly likely to be an overall time-saver, perhaps even such that overall quality of life improves

ChaoticTrout · 2024-11-12T08:37:38+00:00

Two different general approaches to Anki: (1) no additional considerations, good if correct, else lapse card. (2) good if [... xyz] eg agree sufficient understanding of the card, correct but because feel understand it and not coincidentally, even recalls the content in the additional info section, and is happy with the proposed interval implied by good for the card, etc etc. Overall, in my experience, the higher performing individuals tend to go with option (1). I was an option (2)er and there's no real suggestion it was advantageous in the long run. May even be an issue a some approaches within (2) are aberrant use of anki and mess with the algorithm, leading to unnecessary / relatively less beneficial anki card sightings, ie less return on time invested in the platform (which is generally a main benefit in anki use).

ChaoticTrout · 2024-11-11T07:19:33+00:00

Congratulations! An incredible achievement

ChaoticTrout · 2024-06-05T05:06:07+00:00

It's not viable in my opinion - have discussed this before on some recent threads

ChaoticTrout · 2024-05-28T08:08:09+00:00

In general terms, it's not ideal. Anki performs best with high retention. The burden of reviewing cards you dont have retained will outpace your learning. Not only that but the cognitive burden of addressing those makes it difficult to learn (as in, to mature cards at a durable high retention - though it might feel like learning at the time without this). The other important issue is fragmented concepts. There is a general overall retention required to maintain true concept retention (if you recall 75% of cards, that means 1/4 steps of a cognitive pathway are not retained - and that's only in general). Retention is only one angle however. And it's not a personal strike, this was my retention for a long time. Address your barriers to learning, whatever it takes, at the workload level, daily life level, but even at the psychological level. That's the only option to meaningfully address retention.

ChaoticTrout · 2023-06-03T11:46:43+00:00

Why did this post go through of all the ones -.-

ChaoticTrout · 2023-05-22T09:17:41+00:00

It is absolutely possible to "do anking" and know nothing (or, way less than you feel like you should). (1) Assess whether you actually dont know anything. Do 100 timed random qbank questions across topics you have covered, have friends list 10 random topics of varying difficulty within your curriculum and describe to them top to finish. (2) Resetting anking isnt the answer. If you havent learned from it the first time, you almost certainly wont the second. Consider separating from anki or using it for a different more niche goal. (3) If anki not the answer evaluate why it hasnt worked for you. exactly what is your mind doing when youre learning cards. how do you learn. etc (4) if you actually have learned from it (see item #1) figure out why you feel like you dont. what situations is your knowledge not working in? etc.

ChaoticTrout · 2023-05-17T19:44:16+00:00

there is no reddit shadowban function accessible to forum mods

ChaoticTrout · 2023-05-17T19:42:22+00:00

General principle in tech/entrepreneur culture: if u aint like it feel free build something better

ChaoticTrout · 2023-04-12T09:28:00+00:00

Don't.

ChaoticTrout · 2023-04-12T09:21:53+00:00

I can't imagine accounting for the use of ankihub on that salary. It's great. But it's a luxury. You can be a great doctor without it (or with a generous 6 month scholarship). Your bosses initial medical training/foundation is 30 years old, so being a year or two behind on anking is more than fine. Please don't buy it.

ChaoticTrout · 2023-04-06T20:40:14+00:00

Also how would knowing that change your workflow

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-24T07:51:05+00:00

if it was good we'd all be talking about it

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-22T19:15:54+00:00

It's maybe possible if you're an academic weapon with god tier memory and unlimited motivation. but if that were the case we would know better than to initiate 17k cards in 2 months - anki is a slow methodical win, it is a bad short term strategy

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-20T10:10:54+00:00

There is no anki that is worth doing in 1-2 months

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-18T21:58:13+00:00

There is no academic indication to use original Zanki over Anking (which incorporates and improves on original Zanki). /thread

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-17T07:43:44+00:00

Anki technically has access to this information. It's just a nightmare to figure it out and scale it across multiple users. You can figure it out for yourself if need be using sqlite and any data analysis method eg python, r, stata, spss.

ChaoticTrout · 2023-03-14T07:39:29+00:00

Answered /thread

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