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Using images with Core? - xiows - 2012-02-25
Hi,
I am working my way through Core 6K. The decks I have do not have the images that used to be on the smart.fm site.
I wanted to ask those who have done this already whether they found the images helped or not. I have just started to test it out by google/image-ing the vocab word and finding a suitable image to put on manually. However, this takes a bit of time and can add up when done for each card (I am adding quite a lot of new vocab cards a day). Whilst this may be aiding my memory/association, it may also be a lot of procrastinatory busy work.
In your opinion did the accompanying images help at all, is this worth continuing?
Using images with Core? - Kuma01 - 2012-02-25
For me it seemed to work as well as the keyword association wise after seeing it so many times on each card. But I honestly don't think it helps you remember, atleast I never noticed any retention differences between decks.
Using images with Core? - ryuudou - 2012-02-27
I don't think so. This is just speculation, but if anything having images can serve as a "memory crutch" before the cards are mature, and in real-life context without the image you might have a harder time.
If you're interested I think images for the Core 2k deck are linked in Nukemarine's stickied guide thread. Maybe you could experiment with those.