Using Anki to remember what you read

Re:Using Anki to remember what you read by rajlego on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:00AM (#22494015)

There is also SuperMemo 18 (https://super-memo.com/supermemo18.html) which is from the same people as supermemo.com except it's a desktop app with way more features but also a much higher learning curve.

If you use SM and you use anki both for a significant amount of time it's not hard to see that SM leaves you with way less reps. Anki is based on the very first version of the SuperMemo algorithm (from ~1990 or so which was the first SRS algorithm ever) known as SM2. Current version of SM uses SM18.

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Re:Using Anki to remember what you read by dot1x on Friday March 06, 2020 @08:35AM (#22503389)

Too bad SM is Windows-only and desktop-only. The beauty of Anki is that you can review anywhere.

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Re:Using Anki to remember what you read by rajlego on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:13AM (#22504162)

On linux you can use SM via vmware/wine and on os x it's quite usable with parallels. If you're using SRS just for language learning then being able to use on mobile can be helpful but I think for those cases supermemo.com can be a decent alternative. More generally, I think the platform specificness of SuperMemo is more than made up for with its incremental reading functionality (alongside better scheduling algorithm)

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Re:Using Anki to remember what you read by aplaice on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:08PM (#22505245)

> On linux you can use SM via vmware/wine

To add to this, there's a set of Winetricks recipes for running SM on Linux.[0] (Disclaimer: I haven't tried them, though I've been planning to, for a while.)

[0] https://github.com/alessivs/supermemo-wine

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