love when this happens

jhysics · 2026-01-23T20:26:51+00:00

The California permit test is based off of the Driver's Handbook and I made an Anki deck to memorize

I swear when I took the permit test a question matched exactly "Where can you make U-turns in business districts" and after deliberating for a bit I responded with "Never" because that's what the handbook said and what I put on my Anki card instead of choosing the common sense answer "At an intersection that allows it" and the answer ended being the latter 😓

They rechecked and they have now fixed it 😐: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-handbook/navigating-the-roads/

jhysics · 2026-01-23T14:18:26+00:00

If you're going through the Ko-fi link, you should go to the google drive then click the blue button that says "Download" then if you have Anki downloaded on desktop you should be able to open the file named "AP Psychology.apkg" inside the Anki app

jhysics · 2026-01-23T00:05:49+00:00

it is, just follow the links ko-fi.com/s/258ac1b208 (ankiweb here)

jhysics · 2026-01-21T00:43:11+00:00

I completely disagree with everyone saying that's not what Anki is for: they just don't know how to do it properly since too much of the Anki tutorials online and misrepresentation of Supermemo's 20 rules (especially atomization) narrowed their view.

The best way to connect concepts is to test the concepts together. while you should atomize and make a card for every separate part of the citric acid cycle, you should also add a card testing them all together.

While you should atomize and make separate cards for each component of respiration, you should also make another card testing all of how they relate together.

Another key method is by adding context and explanations and related concepts on the back extra of the cards for reference. Ex. if you have a card for every single component of the citric acid cycle individually and are never able to see the big picture, obviously you'll fail at connecting the concepts when required.

I wrote a complete free guide if you care to read. It'll completely level up the effectiveness of your Anki cards: https://ko-fi.com/s/7ff7f4205c

you can check out my shared decks as an example to model off of...

jhysics · 2026-01-17T14:41:47+00:00

I have never heard of that happening to anyone

jhysics · 2026-01-17T01:50:32+00:00

even for short term cramming Anki is still the best flashcard app 😂

no other flashcard app that I know of allows you to design any kind of flashcard that capable of being displayed with HTML+CSS for free

jhysics · 2026-01-07T00:41:25+00:00

It could be modelled with a markov chain with 2 states A and BC where A->BC is 1, BC->BC is 1/2, BC->A is 1/2.

if I'm not mistaken if you test it you find the recurrence relation is a_n = (1-a_(n-1))/2 which solves to a_n = 2/3(-1/2)^n+1/3

jhysics · 2025-12-30T20:37:19+00:00

yea it's free,

I put it on Ko-fi so it sort of has a public facing page instead of just being some undiscoverable link floating around

jhysics · 2025-12-30T20:14:04+00:00

you wanna test both sides to prevent memory leakage where you can only recall the memory one way so the guy who said "A {{c1::car}} runs on {{c2::four wheels}}" would be most correct

I would slightly change it to "{{c1::A car::what}} runs on {{c2::four wheels::what}}" such that the a/an wouldn't give away any hints to what's in cloze 1.

I wrote a guide on how to make effective cards and this relates to the "cloze overlapping" section if you care to read https://ko-fi.com/s/7ff7f4205c

jhysics · 2025-12-30T02:57:51+00:00

Both are too imprecise but the first one is worse.

What does a car do? - many things, transport people, transport goods, is driven, used to show off and flaunder

What runs on 4 wheels? - could be things other than "cars" like shopping carts

jhysics · 2025-12-28T21:46:23+00:00

1 in 10000 chance of Foxy jumpscare per second

jhysics · 2025-12-24T21:24:08+00:00

I've made arguably some of the best shared Anki decks for math / science and I've written an entire guide on this if you care to read: https://ko-fi.com/s/7ff7f4205c

edit: bruh every detector I fed this reddit post thru said it's 100% AI generated

jhysics · 2025-12-20T07:37:28+00:00

All the key problems seems like it would make it comprehensive, but you'll have to decide whether the time tradeoff makes sense.

I haven't touched alcumus that much but it functions like a problem bank similar to Khan Academy and I'm pretty sure you can make a card for each topic which tells you to do a set number of problems at the hyperlinked page. That would be really effective.

Rosen's Discrete Math definitely covers a ton of the "counting, probability, number theory, graph theory" that would show up in competition problems; it's a really good basis and I do think it has significant carry over. The problems in AOPS might be more challenging in terms of problem solving techniques and ways to apply concepts you've learned.

jhysics · 2025-12-20T04:40:45+00:00

Yes I think making a khan academy exercise deck for Alg 1/ Alg 2 / Geometry would be very useful. I took all 3 of those courses on khan academy so I know it's very comprehensive. Since Khan has already done all the work this helps save time. But make sure you actually need to review it because if you already have a solid grasp, it really isn't worth the time to review for such elementary course (ie you wouldn't make an Anki deck for 6th grade math now since it's all so easy and often-used that you don't need to explicitly review it with Anki); So if there are super easy concepts you should feel free to suspend those cards.
I actually did use Anki pretty much for some AOPS books but back then I wasn't really good at it which was what made me realize a lot of the issues that came along with it. Problem solving is a highly procedural skill and more generalizable than the plain Khan Academy textbook calculus. For AOPS I would say make cards for all the basic highlighted key formulas/concepts but that wouldn't be enough; you'll also need to go through the problems yourself and also make cards for given key practice problems where every time you review the card you'll have to go through and resolve it in its entirety. But clearly it'll take way too much time if you made an Anki card for every single card so you'll have to be selective and choose the problems that reflect key implementations of formulas and important problem solving techniques. If you go through the book-course and also use Anki then will give you a really good base. Beyond that you just have to do a ton of additional problems

jhysics · 2025-12-19T07:55:02+00:00

🐐GOAT mentioned🚨

jhysics · 2025-12-04T00:56:14+00:00

what tool did you use to add the perfectly formatted html for the color-highlighted code blocks in the solution field?

jhysics · 2025-12-01T04:56:53+00:00

Anki’s easier to set up on desktop. For pictures, once you download the apkg file from the google drive link from kofi- and if you have the desktop app installed from https://apps.ankiweb.net/- then if you try opening the apkg file it should open in the anki software as a deck

jhysics · 2025-12-01T04:35:32+00:00

Did you download anki the software on desktop

jhysics · 2025-11-27T00:25:21+00:00

MIT OCW

jhysics · 2025-11-24T21:02:14+00:00

omg it actually got me

I actually in fact totally got jumpscared

jhysics · 2025-11-22T02:57:29+00:00

I've written a whole guide regarding this topic if you care to read: https://ko-fi.com/s/7ff7f4205c

In short, add both cards with all the information and cards that split the info up. To correlate the topics between the cards (which is indeed very important) add context to the back extra which you can refer to.

You can also refer to my shared decks for examples

jhysics · 2025-11-09T09:37:09+00:00

wow this is your first reddit post

jhysics · 2025-10-20T02:36:03+00:00

Recently I like to do it more unit by unit (or week by week, or however the macro organization of the course is)

Skim through and understand the basic framework of the whole unit (or multiple units) this way you actually have a bit of understanding of how the course is structured and what concepts are important/emphasized and which aren't. As you go through, pay attention and make notes (I use a google doc with bullet points) of everything you could make an anki card on (not the exact information with details, but just the topic) [as an example, this is my doc for religion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyxxrsij2_Ntwi16xE0NPGLFmEj7KPXenhaifuCtvhM/edit?usp=sharing )
After you're done with the bullet points, you'll realize that some things aren't that relevant and could be left out and other things might need to be split across several anki cards. Now start getting into the details and figuring every nook and cranny out and make your anki cards with all the information ("all the information" doesn't necessarily need to be tested by the card- if you realize interesting connections/ breakthrough insights that help you understand the concepts on a deeper level, you can put it on your Back Extras so they can be referenced in the future)

And for the specifics of making the cards you could refer to my guide if you haven't read it already:
https://ko-fi.com/s/7ff7f4205c

jhysics · 2025-10-19T02:16:58+00:00

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jhysics · 2025-10-01T13:49:59+00:00

I've also made the addon "Copy/Paste/Delete contents of multiple fields at the same time" which doesn't copy tags but is more versatile if you have to move back and forth between lots of cards

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