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Before you read this, check out and go over the actual Anki manual which tells you all the basics about the app, how to use it etc.
Here is the manual:
What Iâm explaining is a manual on how to use it for studying specific content and applying it to other study techniques
A brief summary of what Anki is, itâs a flashcard, spaced repetition tool which refreshes your brain of the content youâre trying to remember right before you forget it, remember it is not as effective when simply using it as a note/flashcard viewing tool, that is better done by physically handwritten notes/flashcards
Anki is mainly used to review your flashcards which means coming back to it after a while to refresh your memory of the content, after a card is learnt on Anki, depending on how well you remember it, it will come back as a review to make you remember it again and recall it
Ankiâs gimmick is the interface, I will use one of my cards as an example:
As you can see at the bottom, it has 4 options youâre able to click, this is after the cards are slightly matured and learnt, this is just a review, when reviewing it is showing the options Again (<10m meaning it will show again in that given time), Hard (1d meaning it will show again in a day), Good (2d meaning it will show again in two days) and Easy (3d meaning it will show again in three days)
These options help you decide how well you remember the card and when you want to see them again, with Anki youâre working at a confidence interval, it all is dependant on how well youâre able to recall a card
Some things to take into consideration when starting you use Anki, you must be consistent with it, if youâre not consistent and miss even a day, your reviews will pile up, and itâll fuck up your memory of the cards youâve previously memorised
Another thing is to look into algorithms which make your Anki experience easier and takes a load off the amount of reviews youâre completing daily, it is extremely difficult to explain and would defeat the purpose of the simple guide in the title, but I use the FSRS algorithm, after a while itâs taken 40% of my reviews down whilst keeping a retention rate of 0.9/90% for all my cards
Hereâs the manual on FSRS (It comes as two parts, the scheduler and optimiser, the manual explains it more in detail):
Now if youâre a last minute crammer like me, worried that you havenât written down any notes, typed up flashcards onto Anki, Iâm gonna teach you how to do it all in five minutes, the only thing you need to do is use Anki consistently
1) You need an AI tool, I use ChatGPT, itâs the most common, if you have ChatGPT 4, youâre golden, if you donât, make sure not to use content pages online that have images on there which are required for the content specification, since GPT 3.5 doesnât allow you to paste in images, with GPT 4 you can upload PDF files that content images, Iâd recommend you to pay the small monthly fee for even a month since this only takes five minutes, or borrow a friends login, Iâve borrowed one of my friendâs login at University
2) What you need to do now is go online and search up your specification/module content notes, if youâre in the UK, Iâll link a resource for you (STEM only), Iâm retaking my A-Levels privately whilst Iâm at University so this is what I do to memorise the content:
3) Using the content either save it as a PDF file by clicking the share button or copy and paste chunks of the information for ChatGPT 3.5 to comprehend, you can tell GPT to not reply to anything youâre about to send until you say so, if itâs saved as a PDF, upload it, if itâs not, paste it, once itâs pasted in, ask GPT to make either question answer flashcards in the form of a CSV file (very important), or normal chunks of information (Iâd recommend this since you can do past paper exam practice anyways)
4) It will generate a CSV file which you save onto your desktop, then you open up Anki, click on import, select the deck you want to upload your CSV file onto, and upload it, it will create an X number of notes that ChatGPT generated, all in the format of Anki flashcards
Another way to take advantage of Anki, once youâve learnt the content, you still need to apply it to exam questions, if youâre a STEM student like me, youâd know the mark scheme of an exam paper is the most important thing to remember since the answers are extremely specific, messing up a single word in Biology will cost you 1-3 marks, and those marks add up and result in 1-2 grades lost (Iâve been there, even though Iâm naturally good at Biology), so what Iâm saying is, using Anki to memorise the mark scheme is a superbly wonderful idea, and extremely effective
However, in the circumstance of making five to six thousand cards which will take months to remember and take up a majority of your day, I would recommend you to complete a past exam paper (After youâve memorised 60-80% of the content prior), then mark, and put a red dot next to the questions you got wrong, then do this:
1) Open up your AI tool again, this time youâre going to need ChatGPT 4
2) Save the past exam paper you just completed
3) Upload it to GPT and tell it to create a CSV for the file you just uploaded and make sure to tell GPT all the questions to generate it for
4) Once it generates a response, import the CSV file to Anki and memorise the mark scheme
Thank you for reading my simple thread, this is what has been working for me this year, itâs the only thing that works for me and Iâm happy to share it as a diagnosed ADHD that finds a lot of other study techniques boring
Here is the manual:
Introduction - Anki Manual
docs.ankiweb.net
What Iâm explaining is a manual on how to use it for studying specific content and applying it to other study techniques
A brief summary of what Anki is, itâs a flashcard, spaced repetition tool which refreshes your brain of the content youâre trying to remember right before you forget it, remember it is not as effective when simply using it as a note/flashcard viewing tool, that is better done by physically handwritten notes/flashcards
Anki is mainly used to review your flashcards which means coming back to it after a while to refresh your memory of the content, after a card is learnt on Anki, depending on how well you remember it, it will come back as a review to make you remember it again and recall it
Ankiâs gimmick is the interface, I will use one of my cards as an example:
As you can see at the bottom, it has 4 options youâre able to click, this is after the cards are slightly matured and learnt, this is just a review, when reviewing it is showing the options Again (<10m meaning it will show again in that given time), Hard (1d meaning it will show again in a day), Good (2d meaning it will show again in two days) and Easy (3d meaning it will show again in three days)
These options help you decide how well you remember the card and when you want to see them again, with Anki youâre working at a confidence interval, it all is dependant on how well youâre able to recall a card
Some things to take into consideration when starting you use Anki, you must be consistent with it, if youâre not consistent and miss even a day, your reviews will pile up, and itâll fuck up your memory of the cards youâve previously memorised
Another thing is to look into algorithms which make your Anki experience easier and takes a load off the amount of reviews youâre completing daily, it is extremely difficult to explain and would defeat the purpose of the simple guide in the title, but I use the FSRS algorithm, after a while itâs taken 40% of my reviews down whilst keeping a retention rate of 0.9/90% for all my cards
Hereâs the manual on FSRS (It comes as two parts, the scheduler and optimiser, the manual explains it more in detail):
GitHub - open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki: A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm
A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm - open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki
github.com
Now if youâre a last minute crammer like me, worried that you havenât written down any notes, typed up flashcards onto Anki, Iâm gonna teach you how to do it all in five minutes, the only thing you need to do is use Anki consistently
1) You need an AI tool, I use ChatGPT, itâs the most common, if you have ChatGPT 4, youâre golden, if you donât, make sure not to use content pages online that have images on there which are required for the content specification, since GPT 3.5 doesnât allow you to paste in images, with GPT 4 you can upload PDF files that content images, Iâd recommend you to pay the small monthly fee for even a month since this only takes five minutes, or borrow a friends login, Iâve borrowed one of my friendâs login at University
2) What you need to do now is go online and search up your specification/module content notes, if youâre in the UK, Iâll link a resource for you (STEM only), Iâm retaking my A-Levels privately whilst Iâm at University so this is what I do to memorise the content:
Physics & Maths Tutor
Revise GCSE/IGCSEs and A-levels! Past papers, exam questions by topic, revision notes, worksheets and solution banks.
www.physicsandmathstutor.com
3) Using the content either save it as a PDF file by clicking the share button or copy and paste chunks of the information for ChatGPT 3.5 to comprehend, you can tell GPT to not reply to anything youâre about to send until you say so, if itâs saved as a PDF, upload it, if itâs not, paste it, once itâs pasted in, ask GPT to make either question answer flashcards in the form of a CSV file (very important), or normal chunks of information (Iâd recommend this since you can do past paper exam practice anyways)
4) It will generate a CSV file which you save onto your desktop, then you open up Anki, click on import, select the deck you want to upload your CSV file onto, and upload it, it will create an X number of notes that ChatGPT generated, all in the format of Anki flashcards
Another way to take advantage of Anki, once youâve learnt the content, you still need to apply it to exam questions, if youâre a STEM student like me, youâd know the mark scheme of an exam paper is the most important thing to remember since the answers are extremely specific, messing up a single word in Biology will cost you 1-3 marks, and those marks add up and result in 1-2 grades lost (Iâve been there, even though Iâm naturally good at Biology), so what Iâm saying is, using Anki to memorise the mark scheme is a superbly wonderful idea, and extremely effective
However, in the circumstance of making five to six thousand cards which will take months to remember and take up a majority of your day, I would recommend you to complete a past exam paper (After youâve memorised 60-80% of the content prior), then mark, and put a red dot next to the questions you got wrong, then do this:
1) Open up your AI tool again, this time youâre going to need ChatGPT 4
2) Save the past exam paper you just completed
3) Upload it to GPT and tell it to create a CSV for the file you just uploaded and make sure to tell GPT all the questions to generate it for
4) Once it generates a response, import the CSV file to Anki and memorise the mark scheme
Thank you for reading my simple thread, this is what has been working for me this year, itâs the only thing that works for me and Iâm happy to share it as a diagnosed ADHD that finds a lot of other study techniques boring