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How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS — LessWrong

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So maybe you’ve heard about spaced repetition, and you’re familiar with the basic ideas for why it can be highly beneficial for learning. But despite this, you don’t really use it all that much / at all, maybe because you find it kinda boring, or you don’t think the things that you are trying to learn are suitable for spaced repetition. Even though there’s a bunch of meta-level advice floating around sites like LessWrong, there doesn’t seem to be as much on the object-level - i.e. how to actually implement spaced repetition in a way that fits with your learning style - and you’re not sure how to go about doing this. This is basically the position I was in at the start of this year. But since then, I’ve started using it a lot more than I used to, in the form of the spaced repetition software Anki. I’ve realised that the customisability Anki offers allows you to greatly expand the scope of things SRS is traditionally used for, to encompass many different fields and types of knowledge. He

x How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS — LessWrong Spaced Repetition Scholarship & Learning Software Tools Practical Rationality Frontpage 37 How I use Anki: expanding the scope of SRS by CallumMcDougall 12th Apr 2022 23 min read 8 37 Intro to this post So maybe you’ve heard about spaced repetition, and you’re familiar with the basic ideas for why it can be highly beneficial for learning. But despite this, you don’t really use it all that much / at all, maybe because you find it kinda boring, or you don’t think the things that you are trying to learn are suitable for spaced repetition. E

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