Re:Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
by rsanek on Sunday May 03, 2020 @07:32PM
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Strong +1. I constantly felt like I was wasting time by studying and then stopping since I would forget 95% of what I learned. With a small daily investment, Anki flips that percentage to retaining 80-90%. It has been an insane boon to my motivation, and I've been able to keep a near-daily habit of doing it for 6 years now.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
by mertnesvat on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:26AM
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Are you using every week or is it when you resume where you left of you check the cards?
To be effective you need to use Anki every day. I set my goal for learning and reviewing ambient knowledge at 30 minutes per day. All ambient cards are organized under one “Daily” deck. If studying that deck exceeds 30 minutes, then I reduce the number of new cards added per day until it goes below the threshold.
For knowledges that I’m actively learning, I keep separate decks and have no time limit. Creating, splitting, and tuning cards is fundamental to my learning process.