Last updated Unknown

Status: Tags: Links: Remembering

Flashcards

Principles

• Have one fact/concept per card

Benefits

• Partake in Spaced Repetition and Active Recall
• Acts as a second brain, as the cards you create will eventually become remembered through practice

Practices

• You can memorize essays by turning each idea into a flashcard
  • Helps chunk
• Ask yourself whether you truly need to make a flashcard for something
  • Only make flashcards when:
    • A concept provides resistance
    • You get something wrong
    • You have trouble remembering something in the second learning run
• Consider whether you need to add extra information
• Concepts per card help with synthesizing
• Use tags to do selective learning and be intricate in your planning

Dangers

• Be sure not to waste time going through obvious cards

Types

• Information-dense cards
  • More for quick-learning, and are more thorough
  • A certain concept or procedure
  • ex) Steps for performing a heart surgerey

Resources

• Anki MOC
• Google Sheets
  • Systematic
  • Easier view of understood topics

References:

Created:: 2021-06-17 23:17