S.S, These are great tidbits! I agree - incorporating Q/A tiddlers into a TW would be great - so long as a proper "Scheduler" could help you review them in a Spaced Repetition framework
On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 7:37:42 PM UTC-6, S. S. wrote: > > Diego, > > I am enjoying reading http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html > Thanks for sharing. The sentences from the first half of the article that > jumped out in direct relation to tw5: > > One benefit of using Anki in this way is that you begin to habitually >> break things down into atomic questions. This sharply crystallizes the >> distinct things you've learned. Personally, I find that crystallization >> satisfying, for reasons I (ironically) find difficult to articulate. But >> one real benefit is that later* I often find those atomic ideas can be >> put together in ways I didn't initially anticipate*. And that's well >> worth the trouble. > > > Anki allows you to organize cards into decks and subdecks. *Some people >> use this to create a complicated organizational structure.* I used to do >> this, but I've gradually merged my decks and subdecks into one big deck. >> *The >> world isn't divided up into neatly separated components, *and I believe >> it's good to collide very different types of questions. >> > > > The Anki site has many shared decks, but I've found only a little use for >> them. The most important reason is that making Anki cards is an act of >> understanding in itself. *That is, figuring out good questions to ask, >> and good answers, is part of what it means to understand a new subject >> well.* To use someone else's cards is to forgo much of that >> understanding. >> >> Indeed, I believe the act of constructing the cards actually helps with >> memory. Memory researchers have repeatedly found that the more elaborately >> you encode a memory, the stronger the memory will be. *By elaborative >> encoding, they mean essentially the richness of the associations you form.* >> > > *The act of constructing* an Anki card *is itself nearly always a form of >> elaborative encoding.* It *forces you to think through alternate forms >> of the question, to consider the best possible answers*, and so on. I >> believe this is true for even the most elementary cards. And it certainly >> becomes true if you construct more complex cards, cards relating the basic >> fact to be remembered to other ideas ( ... ), gradually building up a web >> of richly interrelated ideas. >> > > > *Why not use more* of Anki's *features?* Part of the reason is that I get *an >> enormous benefit from just the core features.* Furthermore, learning to >> use this tiny set of features well has required a lot of work. A basketball >> and hoop are simple pieces of equipment, but you can spend a lifetime >> learning to use them well. Similarly, basic Anki practice can be developed >> enormously. And so *I've concentrated on learning to use those basic >> features well.* >> >> >> I know many people who try Anki out, and then go down a rabbit hole >> learning as many features as possible so they can use it “efficiently”. >> Usually, they're chasing 1% improvements. Often, those people ultimately >> give up Anki as “too difficult”, which is often a synonym for “I got >> nervous I wasn't using it perfectly”. This is a pity. >> >> >> As discussed earlier, Anki offers something like a 20-fold improvement >> over (say) ordinary flashcards. And so they're giving up a 2,000% >> improvement because they were worried they were missing a few final 5%, 1% >> and (in many cases) 0.1% improvements. This kind of rabbit hole seems to be >> especially attractive to programmers. >> >> >> For this reason, when someone is getting started I advise not using any >> advanced features, and not installing any plugins. Don't, in short, come >> down with a bad case of programmer's efficiency disease. Learn how to use >> Anki for basic question and answer, and concentrate on exploring new >> patterns within that paradigm. That'll serve you far better than any number >> of hours spent fiddling around with the features. Then, if you build a >> regular habit of high-quality Anki use, you can experiment with more >> advanced features. >> > > > Makes me contemplate making "Question/Answer" tiddlers that connect to the > information I already have in my TW! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c7441109-5bc5-4cf8-b6b7-2514fb2c521f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
