hi there. I've always wanted to create a process that mimicked the kanji study for my school courses and so today I made it. Tell me what you think.

Studying with ANKI: make SRSing work for YOU
1) Purpose: to promote long term memory

2) Goal: to spend only ½ an hour per day on each subject using the study process.

3) Study process: (every day repeat the process)
Step 1: create new cards for the first session.
Step 2: follow the priority system.
Priority 1: review all due cards
Priority 2: review any failed cards
Priority 3: review any new cards
Priority 4: create new cards
1. Physical texts/notes:
I) type up the important information
II) Prepare the notes for anki by creating the cloze deletion around words.
III) Add the notes to ANKI.

2. Non-math e-books:
I) copy and paste important info into anki and create the cloze deletion.

3. Math eBooks:
I) copy and paste the important information such as tips and formulas that need to be memorized into word.
II) Create cloze deletions and add to anki
III) Complete assigned problems on paper
IV) Copy the math problems into anki
i) front: math question ex) factor this equation.
ii) Back: steps of the question and
the answer.

Current Anki subjects (August 1 2011)
• Business calculus.
• Business statistics.
• Financial accounting.

Sounds like a good idea! I wish I had known about Anki when I was in school.

Might take you longer than 30 min to add new material and do review though. Adding new stuff always takes me a while.

Quote:Current Anki subjects (August 1 2011)
• Business calculus.
• Business statistics.
• Financial accounting.

Wow, I'm lining up for those shared decks when they're ready!

I'd be interested in the results and actual time it takes to complete those tasks every day.

Also, it would be nice to see some sample cards from those subjects. It's hard for me to imagine in what situations, outside of terms/equations, you could make cards. Though would you need anything else?

Oh, and of course, it's important to see whether this needs to supplemented by practice problems or whether it can suffice to carry you to an "A" on its own.

You might want to check out Karpicke & Roediger's work on spaced retrieval for a variety of topics and formats: http://learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/publications/

I've found a wealth of information in their papers that have enabled me to overhaul my own SRSing.

Also, you might want to tinker with this incremental reading plugin for Anki: http://www.frankraiser.de/drupal/AnkiIR

I've noticed that Khan Academy's framework for designing lessons seems to have been published or made more accessible or something? I kept seeing it mentioned in my RSS feeds but haven't looked. Might be something useful there.

Lastly, some nice primers on the concepts behind the aforementioned papers:

http://psychologyinaction.org/2011/01/04...classroom/
http://psychologyinaction.org/2011/02/14...-teaching/
http://psychologyinaction.org/2011/02/09...-learning/

I'll just say a couple of tips, hope they help.

1. Make sure you understand the material you are making a card for well first so you can design the card it to test you on a level that is as deep as you want it to be. Looking up things with wikipedia can help a lot with this (and wikipedia copy-pasta can help you save time and improve your answers' accuracy)

2. Be careful with cloze deletion and think about what it really is you are trying to learn. Do you want to learn names for things so you can write them down at tests asking you for them and use them in conversations etc. or is your goal to keep an understanding of what the concepts actually mean? It might just be me who hasn't figured out the cloze thing very well, but I rarely use the cloze's with non-language cards because I find that whenever I do, the question ends up being almost only about putting names on things.

I'm guessing you've already seen the other recent SRS thread here, but in case you haven't, make sure to get acquainted with a snipping tool of your choice, it is a very powerful tool with Anki.

@jishera: ya I know it's a small time limit but I'm currently unemployed so I'm looking for work most of the day and the times will increase once I'm in school

@jettyke: lol well if you can tell me how to share decks I'll let u in on my little project .

@Ryuujin27: my goal is really to learn all the definitions/equations since that's what I'm going to be "tested" on. As for practice problems, I'm playing around with that notion. I'm thinking about just putting my practicce problems into ANKI and simply doing them over and over until I get it .

@nest0r: As always you have a wealth of information to share with the rest of us. I'll look into some of the things you suggested.

As a side note: I'm trying to use Anki with my normal study habits ex)
1) prep for the lecture
2) outline my notes after the lecture
3) study my outlines and test my self if I actually know anything (this is where ANKI comes in)

Also, since I just got into my Business program I was pleasantly surprised that my GPA is 3.77/4.5. If I can bring stats and Calc to an A+ I will have a 4.0 GPA . For this degree I'm going for the gold medal (top GPA of the last 2 years) and medal of excellence (top GPA in my major which is Management ).

How to share decks: Go to the anki website: http://ankiweb.net/account/login

And upload a shared deck

edit: you need an account, of course

I ditched all my usual study methods in favor of making cards in Anki for courses in my Biology major two semesters ago. I spend maybe 60-75 minutes per week per course making cards for each class. Except for running through the deck on Cram before an exam, I spend at most 10 minutes a day viewing cards. (Of course, those figures don't include doing problem sets, which can take hours and hours.) Still pulling top marks in physics, genetics, etc., so I'm satisfied. If it worked for Evolution & Ecology and Organic Chem 1, it should work for Business math classes and the like.

Yea, I've also used it for biology and it can kinda of get tedious at times inputing 4 big chapters and cramming 2 days before the test. But it's better if used daily, adding a little at a time.

The best classes are the one's that teach directly from the book and powerpoint slides. Some teachers make life hell and ask questions in the hardest way possible. I tended to avoid those classes.

@ Surreal: ya Its a work in progress. I figured I would use the N+1 thing and see how that goes. My main goal for SRS is to learn definitions and keep them in my head . As for the snipping tool, I didn't see that thread. I'll try and look for it.

You mean i+N/i+1? ;p

For Anki I've found the (built-in Windows) snipping tool most useful for images or non-OCR'd text; I've mostly used it with my tablet (programs such as Windows Journal/OneNote), as mentioned here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid129844

wulfgar Wrote:@ Surreal: ya Its a work in progress. I figured I would use the N+1 thing and see how that goes. My main goal for SRS is to learn definitions and keep them in my head . As for the snipping tool, I didn't see that thread. I'll try and look for it.

The 'snipping tool' is very simple, here's what to do depending on what platform you use:
Win7: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windo...pping-tool
Mac: "...to select the location of capture, press Apple-Shift-4, release and position the selection box to the desired location. The images will appear on your desktop in PNG." (from http://forums.techarena.in/operating-sys...250174.htm)
Win XP: http://www.appatic.com/2010/11/jays-snip...ws-xp.html

I've been using it lately with e-books, videos and sometimes Wikipedia when the usual copy-pasta isn't working too well (lets you easily fix pictures that show with black background after copying to Anki while they have white background on Wikipedia as well as making a picture of formulas from Wikipedia instead of having to mess around with latex, etc.). I'm using Jay's snipping tool and I'm very satisfied with it. I don't really know, but I think that Win7's and Apple's snipping tools might save the images with higher quality than needed so it's probably best to check the settings and lower it if you can. I probably have around fifty snip-tooled pictures in Anki right now and they're rapidly increasing; I can't imagine what the load times would end up like if the pictures were 1MB each instead of ~50kB.

@Surreal

thanks for the information. I found a sniping tool in the adobe reader that i use since it's good for the math examples.