Theese methods make you feel productive because you make flashcards faster or do things faster. (Oddly specific? It’s what I see other people doing…) But if you strip down these steps even more, your learning goes into oblivion.Īnd it’s important to strip these down into essentials because I don’t like overcomplicating the process by using tons of add-ons, “suspending/unsuspending cards,” using scripts, creating new card types, or working around Glutanimate’s paywalls by installing Anki 2.0 and then reviewing in Anki 2.1…all of which I believe distract you from actually learning. These are “core” steps because you can add memory techniques, use any tool of your choice, etc. Use my “8-second flashcard” template to form the flashcard.Make questions that test you of what you understood.
Form the encoded version of the core idea for each step. When I was learning processes in Electronics Engineering (semiconductors, avalanche effect, electronic communications, wave propagation, etc.) I always did 3 “core” steps: I like to keep things as simple as possible. The 3 Core Steps to Learn Processes Efficiently as an Anki Learner THAT is the only true way to use Anki efficiently. It doesn’t need to be perfect, but you gotta make sure you’re following the right study process rather than being functionally fixed in “thinking inside Anki”. So let’s do things right the first time around. I mean, don’t you think that defeats your original goal of using Anki in the first place? Wozniak’s “20 rules of formulating knowledge” - a classic read for SRS learners - is “learn first before you memorize.”ĭon’t even try to make flashcards without learning the processes first outside of Anki, because you’ll just end up going back to re-learn it. Look, I’m sure we all agree that Anki is a tool for remembering what you learn.īut if you did NOT LEARN anything in the first place, then there’s NOTHING to “remember”, don’t you think? So you can forget about how you can use image occlusion/cloze overlapper/LPCG/custom card types/suspending cards, or installing a gazillion add-ons just to learn a single process. You don’t have to limit yourself to being a cloze-answering robot, either, because it’s a damn good recipe for losing the big picture. In the first place, making cards for each step and making sure that they show up in the right order is confusing, and putting everything into one cloze card is overwhelming…and ALSO confusing. You LEARN them sequentially - that is obvious - but it’s fine to TEST it either in a linear or nonlinear way as long as you truly learned them before practicing them. You don’t need to make flashcards that tests you of the steps sequentially. I want to make sure you’re thinking about learning processes the right way: First Things First - You gotta think the right way about learning processes. If you do it correctly, you’ll be able to retain the big picture AND the details, and come up with a sure answer even when the questions are presented differently.īut first, we gotta get the thinking right. So I’m going to share with you simple, repeatable steps + a card template to make cards for long processes that have the right amount of context and feel “just right” to review. …all of which just take away from the reason you’re using Anki in the first place! You’re using Anki as a tool to complement your study process, not to spend all of your time endlessly tweaking the thing. You’re worried of leaving too much context and wouldn’t remember it outside of Anki. You’re blocking out too much or too little because you don’t know what to include and what to exclude. 
You end up with a whole paragraph of clozes. Do you have to use tags for the process and then break it up into many cards?īut I can tell you for a fact that if you tried any of the time-wasting options above, you end up in at least one of three scenarios:. Do you include definitions in with the diagram/list card?. Do you create separate cards for the definitions of the steps?. Make flashcards for one step, asking for the next one, and then suspending cards when you learn the first step correctly?. Image occlusion of a diagram detailing the steps?. #ANKI CLOZE OVERLAPPER FULL#
Make one large card that has the overall content full of cloze deletions?.In this post, you’re going to learn the simplest, best way I know of to learn long processes as an Anki learner.įirst off, you’ve probably been told to “make short flashcards” but don’t know how exactly “short flashcards” can be made from long processes.
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