The first one is Interleaving, because not the same cards about a single topic are constantly being asked, but the deck of flashcards contains many different topics. You’re taking advantage of some of the best learning strategies with Anki. Using the three most important learning principles Use that to your advantage and learn while you are waiting for the bus or for your noodles to be done when you are cooking. Only then will the cards appear in the correct frequency.Īnki is available as a desktop version and as an application for your phone which means that you’ll be able to learn anytime anywhere as long as you have a stable internet connection. All of this only works if you are honest and correctly click the buttons to tell the app whether you were wrong or right. Should you forget the right answer for a specific card and you give the wrong answer, this card will be recategorized and will appear more often from then on. Easier flashcards on the other hand, will reappear on the following day. A card that is labelled as difficult would then reappear again after about 10 minutes of learning. Depending on whether you knew a specific card, the app changes the sequence of the flash cards. While you are using the app, the algorithm puts each flashcard in one of three categories: Easy, Good and Difficult. With Anki you don’t have to worry about getting confused with all those cards. But it is still tough to say how well you know a specific card compared to others in that pile and should you have hundreds of cards to learn, this system gets messy very quickly. Of course, you can make several piles for cards that you know already. If you always repeat learning the entire pile of cards, those easier cards will appear too often and you waste valuable time going through cards that you already know. The main reason is because there are going to be cards that you’ll remember more easily than others. Nevertheless, there is always room to improve the learning process using flashcards and even save some time while doing so. After all, flashcards are one of the most effective learning tools. At the end of the semester, you work intensely with those flashcards and sure enough you’ll see some progress and success. So you write the necessary cards for the topics that were talked about in class and you do that every week throughout the entire semester. Let’s assume you are using the conventional flashcards and you use them perfectly (unlike I did). It helps tremendously in learning more efficient and retaining more content in your memory.
Its main advantage that sets it apart from similar apps is its algorithm. Additionally, you can use the speech to text function on your phone to save even more time. With these you create the flashcards digitally which is an advantage, as most students are able to type quicker than they can write. The sole act of making the cards of course didn’t have a sufficient learning effect to result in a satisfactory grade. Once, I miscalculated the time it took to write the cards so much that I only finished writing them two days before the exam. Even though I know about the advantages of this method, I am no fan of it as I find the writing of the cards annoying and very time consuming. First of all, there is the classic approach using paper flashcards and a pen.
There are many possibilities for how to use flashcards.