How efficient Anki is ?
To remembar a card for 20 years
On average, it takes 8 seconds with him to review one card.
If he wanted to remember something for the next 20 years, he’d need 20 years times 52 weeks per year times 8 seconds per card. a total review time → over 2 hours for each card.
By, contrast, with Anki’s SRS system, he’ll only need 4 to 7 minutes of total review time over the entire 20 years. Failed reviews and resseting the time interval are took into considiration.
What he uses anki for
Reading a research paper Unix command book
Anki isn’t just a tool for memorizing simple facts. It’s a tool for understanding almost anything.
He learned how Alpha Go works using Anki.
How to do that?
→ Break things up into atomic facts. → Build rich hierarchies of interconnections and integrative questions. → Avoid orphan questions (not closely releated to anything else in your memory)
Construct your own decks
Making Anki cards is an act of understanding in itself not remembering something
forming rich associations
meaning of economic → about economics meaning of economical → saving money diffirences of economic and economical → economic → about economics : economical → saving money
These 3 cards are forming associations (Redundancy does not contradict minimum information principle)
in terms of how memory works, they are different, causing associations on very different triggers.