Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
by bbischof on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:28AM
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I love anki, and I love this use of it, but how do you quickly make cards? Especially on mobile?
Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
by pchr8 on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:03AM
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I'm also a fan of Anki, I never create cards on mobile (though review them almost exclusively there), but from desktop you can check out https://github.com/MFreidank/AnkiVim and https://metacpan.org/pod/Anki::Import. Raw cards are just text, and you can create them with any editor. https://github.com/corollari/ankiTab is also awesome for reviewing.
If you want more theory about Anki / Spaced repetition, https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition is the ultimate resource on topic
Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
by vanoora on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:31AM
(#20007983)
I use the AnkiDroid app on my phone. And it's a pain to quickly make cards on the phone. You will get better and faster at creating cloze deletions after creating a few cards on a phone.
That's why I only use AnkiDroid on phone to revise (and seldom create cards) if accessing a laptop is a bigger pain.
Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
by james_s_tayler on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:26AM
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This and Workflowy are my go-to for personal knowledge repositories. Anki is such a secret weapon. I'm finding Workflowy to be another.
I create separate decks for different fields and then only if necessary do I create subdecks. I also tag all the cards that I create and make sure to spend a lot of time to ensure that it's made and tagged properly. So, whenever I learn something new and I believe at that point of time that it's worth remembering, I create a card for that.
[1]: http://ankiweb.net/