On 07/06/2010 11:28, mzatanoskas wrote:
2. Indeed, how do people deal with the necessity of different levels/ types of recall required for different flashcards. For example unless you planning on winning quiz shows, immediate recall is not required for most "factual" trivia type flashcards, ie the exact date of a King's reign for example.
One of the reasons I abandoned anki was the timer countdown in the status bar. It got on my nerves and I couldn't figure out how to disable it.
A lot of my questions are images, and even once I think I know the answer, I may spend some time deliberately looking at the image and thinking about the answer or spelling or thinking of other ways of trying to remember the question if it's leaching.
Also I find that I'm getting very good at recalling stuff in the quiet of my room in front of my computer, when I'm in "mnemosyne" mode. However I often can't remember the same stuff when I'm out and about in the real world and feel like testing myself.
I find this too and it's frustrating. A lot of what I try to remember is plant identification and botanical names and often when out in the field I can't recall the botanical name for a plant even though I might get it instantly in front of the computer.
I think the basic problem is that it's easy to forget that SRS is a tool, you devolve the responsibility of useful memory to the software. I try and combat this by making sure I'm not focussed on just remembering the word, but I'm remembering the concept, the meaning and everything behind it, everytime I come across a certain flashcard.
That's what I now try and do for the same reason as yourself. I'm also a bit more ruthless at deleting leach cards, and often edit 'live' cards on the fly to make them more meaningful.
As gas also been stated elsewhere in the thread I also try and break down the information into as small units as possible and, with things like plant identification, may have loads of images, all slightly different, for the same plant id.
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