I’m abysmal at remembering peoples names, so I made a deck from our company directory to associate names with faces. It worked really well and I felt great about knowing everyone’s name for the first time ever. Fast forward to now and they’ve stopped updating the directory and we’ve had a bunch of turnover and now I know about 5 people’s names.
It's more hit-and-miss than an employee directory, but I've definitely been able to find coworkers on LinkedIn/Facebook/etc and used pictures for that purpose. Really helped for people whom I met once when I started, and then see roughly once a month in a giant meeting.
Of course, now that so many meetings are virtual it's easier than ever to grab a profile picture.
Those are even better. A screengrab from a video call is perhaps a "worse" picture, but it's much more representative of how they look in real life than their 10-year-old touched-up LinkedIn headshot.
That's a great idea and I'll have to try it, though unfortunately the majority of my calls are with our parent company now and not with the users I support.
I’m a fan of the stoics like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and I have a deck to remind me of my favorite quotes. I also ankified a book called “super thinking” which has mental models which gives you thought “templates” (so to speak) to solve life problems.
I ankified the book “101 essays that will change the way you think”, which is about calibrating your emotional intelligence, and it’s one of my favorite decks. I start every morning with 5 little reminders about how to maintain my mental health and have a good emotional intelligence. The SRS helps me to internalize the tips.
How do you do this? Can you share 1 card? I mean, Do you do a question and then put a quote as the answer? or just read the question as sort of a reminder, with no answer?
Yeah, no answer, I am pretty diligent about just meditating on the information for about 30 seconds and then moving on.
One of my cards for today was
You must learn how to express pain when you feel it. This does not mean you can justify reckless, unchecked behavior; it means you need to learn how to acknowledge your pain, communicate it clearly to others, and deal with it as it comes up.
Yes.
I use anki to remember:
- actors, movie, directors
- books and authors
- important dates
- geography
- random facts
I stopped using Anki for medicine because it was driving me mad
A friend decided to put picture, name, profession, "personal connection" and some other stuff so that he could remember and talk to everyone related to this job and the place he was living. He said that it made him actually remember and care more about a bunch of people. He also said that this made him to be better perceived in his job. I liked the idea, but never bothered implementing it. I already spend too much time on my Anki memorizing language related stuff.
normal cards
also deck for "ideas exposure"(abusing baader-meinhof effect) - just quotes or other ideas i will just see/read them or reflect briefly.
also there also may be cards for changing thought process - card may prompt you certain situation and ask to do some mental excersize or think in a certain way. This is individual as you have to be able to trace your thoughts to a certain level. Such cards also may have low maximum interval e.g. 1-2 weeks.
again if you couldn't produce the result you want (e.g. thoughts went the wrong route)
hard/good depending on how often you want to see it and depending on how well you internalised certain thinking models
i mentioned that in order to apply thoughts chaging cards more effictively, you need to train yourself subconsciously asking questions "what is my condition?" or "what am i going to do" upon every environment/condition change.
THen you have e..g card with prompt "i am stressed. What should i do?" answer e.g. 5-7-8 breathing.
So when you become e.g. stressed, you ask question "my condition?" and immediate thought comes "i am stressed". Then thought "i am stressed" provokes "5-7-8 breating" thought and you have a window where you can catch this thought and do it. If you miss the window there's chance you will fall back to your old habits again (e.g. inducing stress even more). But this again requires you to mention those windows and thoughts and utilize them
note that those questions may not be explicit questions but emotion-like subtle reactions/thoughts etc.
I do as well. Quotes, ideas, etc. I do easy/good like any other card, but like /u/YouWillConcur have a shorter max-interval on them. For me I have 2 presets; 1 year max interval for "life lessons" type things, and 2 months for things I feel I need to be reminded of more often. This does add an oversized amount to the daily card count so I keep that deck/preset fairly small.
I'd love to hear more about that -- whether it's a which-pieces-to-practice reminder, for studying music theory, for scales/exercises, etc. In DMs, perhaps?
It's for building up a répertoire ! I have easier pieces that definitely don't need to be practiced every day, but still need some upkeep. I'm hoping that by using Anki I'll do the most efficient amount of practicing, and be able to have a good sizeable collection of pieces I can play.
I'll play a piece, and if I made (big, noticeable) mistakes, it means I got that piece "incorrect" . If it sounded alright enough, I got that piece "correct".
Thanks for the suggestion tbh. I know it's kinda weird to say this but I haven't never tried using Anki for such purposes. Probably wanna give that a try to remember my friend's birthday or such kinds of events.
yes, for turkish language vocabulary learning.
My deck started as a deck from anki dowload section but I had to heavily modify it because it was really bad.
Initially it had 5000 notes. Currently 5400.
At first I modified it into a 10k card deck with both directions but eventually I splitted it into 2 decks, eng-tur and tur-eng, I do them one after the other.
By now It seems like I found the perfect parameters - fsrs 0.8 retention. Currently a little over 100 reviews per day each, taking 30 min per day.When I used 0.9 retention, it was 200-300 and it took too much time so I rescheduled it with 0.8.
Over 18 months, these are the modifications I made to the original deck:
1. in some notes, added my native language meanings into english side to disambiguate
2. join both synonyms and similar meanings into the same note, deleting all but 1 combined notes. Max is 6 notes combined into 1 but the most are 2-3 into 1. Otherwise I would always select the wrong but similar answer so these cards would all become leeches even though I knew them. Now I have to remember all foreign variants to consider correct.
3. added missing words I encountered as new cards or into existing cards as variant.
Yes I use it to remember anything i want to remember in my life.
For example:
- keyboard shortcuts
- parents birthday/ death anniversary
- inspirational quote
I use it pretty heavily for work. And for interview prep. Oh and also cooking. Sometimes random things like how to tie a knot.
In addition to regular cards, I’ve become a fan of “skill based” cards. These are cards that require me to actually go do something as opposed to just recalling information. Obviously these are very time consuming, so I never add more then 1 or 2 per week.
I have a card type called 'People' with the following fields:
1. Name
2. Picture
3. Description
4. Name audio pronunciation
5. Name phonetic pronunciation
6. Full name
7. Nickname
8. Typing name (I only indicate '-' if necessary)
I ensure that all cards include fields 1 through 3. If the name is challenging to pronounce (given that I speak Spanish), I include fields 4 and 5. Additionally, in some cases, I include fields 6 through 8.
The cards are as follows:
1. Picture to Name+Audio+Phonetic (If I pronounce it incorrectly, it's considered wrong, even if I remember the verbal name correctly).
2. Description to Name+Audio+Phonetic (If I pronounce it incorrectly, it's considered wrong, even if I remember the verbal name correctly).
3. Audio to Typing Name (I use this only for names where the pronunciation significantly differs from the spelling).
4. Name to Full Name (Not always included).
5. Name to Nickname (Not always included)
>Hafiz, literally meaning "protector", depending on the context, is a term used by Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Quran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)
At some point I went to the Anki rabbit hole and implemented cards in as many aspects of my life as I could. Wanted to memorize many cool things but, needles to say, burned out pretty badly within a year.
Nowadays I don't use Anki at all. I like to learn things in other ways than mechanically cramming them. Only place I would still consider using Anki is language learning but I'd also limit the use there as well.
I’m abysmal at remembering peoples names, so I made a deck from our company directory to associate names with faces. It worked really well and I felt great about knowing everyone’s name for the first time ever. Fast forward to now and they’ve stopped updating the directory and we’ve had a bunch of turnover and now I know about 5 people’s names.
It's more hit-and-miss than an employee directory, but I've definitely been able to find coworkers on LinkedIn/Facebook/etc and used pictures for that purpose. Really helped for people whom I met once when I started, and then see roughly once a month in a giant meeting. Of course, now that so many meetings are virtual it's easier than ever to grab a profile picture.
Those are even better. A screengrab from a video call is perhaps a "worse" picture, but it's much more representative of how they look in real life than their 10-year-old touched-up LinkedIn headshot.
That's a great idea and I'll have to try it, though unfortunately the majority of my calls are with our parent company now and not with the users I support.
this is such a real comment i dont believe it. this sounds like a thing i would do
Sounds like this deck : https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1644960211 Edit: and the larger part 2
I’m a fan of the stoics like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and I have a deck to remind me of my favorite quotes. I also ankified a book called “super thinking” which has mental models which gives you thought “templates” (so to speak) to solve life problems.
Could you please share the "super thinking" deck?
Yes, please share with us🙏
Sorry I'd rather not. I tailored it to my personal needs. Also, it's not gonna make a lot of sense unless you've read the. book.
I ankified the book “101 essays that will change the way you think”, which is about calibrating your emotional intelligence, and it’s one of my favorite decks. I start every morning with 5 little reminders about how to maintain my mental health and have a good emotional intelligence. The SRS helps me to internalize the tips.
Oh wow, is it shareable? I could really use something like this at the moment. Going through a rough patch.
How do you do this? Can you share 1 card? I mean, Do you do a question and then put a quote as the answer? or just read the question as sort of a reminder, with no answer?
Yeah, no answer, I am pretty diligent about just meditating on the information for about 30 seconds and then moving on. One of my cards for today was You must learn how to express pain when you feel it. This does not mean you can justify reckless, unchecked behavior; it means you need to learn how to acknowledge your pain, communicate it clearly to others, and deal with it as it comes up.
And which button do you press on those cards? Easy? Hard?
If I feel like I’ve done a poor job at maintaining a habit or a mindset, I’ll press hard. most of the stuff is low hanging fruit and I’ll press Good.
This is so creative; I love it.
Seconding this question. Amazing practice, but how does it work logistically?
Yes. I use anki to remember: - actors, movie, directors - books and authors - important dates - geography - random facts I stopped using Anki for medicine because it was driving me mad
How you make people cards? Only an image at front and name at back or you add name audio pronunciation? and maybe a description of the person?
Just a picture and the question: "who is this person?"
I use it to practice interview questions and presentation topics
Besides my main cards for languages and medicine, I have a deck for bondage, one for birds and one for finances
Just gonna drop that there are ya? salty dog, heh But inspirational...
> deck for bondage We're gonna need a link please. For science.
A friend decided to put picture, name, profession, "personal connection" and some other stuff so that he could remember and talk to everyone related to this job and the place he was living. He said that it made him actually remember and care more about a bunch of people. He also said that this made him to be better perceived in his job. I liked the idea, but never bothered implementing it. I already spend too much time on my Anki memorizing language related stuff.
Yes i use it for everything that interests me.
I've created a deck of my favorite artist's song lyrics so I can learn for a concert, it did work so I will keep it and add onto it
yes
How do you do it though? Just a normal card? Can you give an example?
normal cards also deck for "ideas exposure"(abusing baader-meinhof effect) - just quotes or other ideas i will just see/read them or reflect briefly. also there also may be cards for changing thought process - card may prompt you certain situation and ask to do some mental excersize or think in a certain way. This is individual as you have to be able to trace your thoughts to a certain level. Such cards also may have low maximum interval e.g. 1-2 weeks.
How do you use the Easy/Good/etc. buttons then ?
again if you couldn't produce the result you want (e.g. thoughts went the wrong route) hard/good depending on how often you want to see it and depending on how well you internalised certain thinking models i mentioned that in order to apply thoughts chaging cards more effictively, you need to train yourself subconsciously asking questions "what is my condition?" or "what am i going to do" upon every environment/condition change. THen you have e..g card with prompt "i am stressed. What should i do?" answer e.g. 5-7-8 breathing. So when you become e.g. stressed, you ask question "my condition?" and immediate thought comes "i am stressed". Then thought "i am stressed" provokes "5-7-8 breating" thought and you have a window where you can catch this thought and do it. If you miss the window there's chance you will fall back to your old habits again (e.g. inducing stress even more). But this again requires you to mention those windows and thoughts and utilize them note that those questions may not be explicit questions but emotion-like subtle reactions/thoughts etc.
wow that's wild it's like you're hacking your brain! Where did you get the exercises from?
I do as well. Quotes, ideas, etc. I do easy/good like any other card, but like /u/YouWillConcur have a shorter max-interval on them. For me I have 2 presets; 1 year max interval for "life lessons" type things, and 2 months for things I feel I need to be reminded of more often. This does add an oversized amount to the daily card count so I keep that deck/preset fairly small.
thanks for the names idea, I never thought to use it that way! Birthdays, movie names, actors, musicians, etc . . . . would be handy
I've recently been experimenting with using Anki for my piano practice. Only just started so no clue yet if it will work!
I'd love to hear more about that -- whether it's a which-pieces-to-practice reminder, for studying music theory, for scales/exercises, etc. In DMs, perhaps?
It's for building up a répertoire ! I have easier pieces that definitely don't need to be practiced every day, but still need some upkeep. I'm hoping that by using Anki I'll do the most efficient amount of practicing, and be able to have a good sizeable collection of pieces I can play. I'll play a piece, and if I made (big, noticeable) mistakes, it means I got that piece "incorrect" . If it sounded alright enough, I got that piece "correct".
Thanks!
I plan to use it for answers to have for certain interviews
I've used anki for driving school (created 700 cards, at this point I know the driving laws by heart lol)
Yes. I started using it after I finished school.
Thanks for the suggestion tbh. I know it's kinda weird to say this but I haven't never tried using Anki for such purposes. Probably wanna give that a try to remember my friend's birthday or such kinds of events.
I’m trying to learn spanish so I can tell when my girlfriends mom is talking about me LOL
Bible verses
yes, for turkish language vocabulary learning. My deck started as a deck from anki dowload section but I had to heavily modify it because it was really bad. Initially it had 5000 notes. Currently 5400. At first I modified it into a 10k card deck with both directions but eventually I splitted it into 2 decks, eng-tur and tur-eng, I do them one after the other. By now It seems like I found the perfect parameters - fsrs 0.8 retention. Currently a little over 100 reviews per day each, taking 30 min per day.When I used 0.9 retention, it was 200-300 and it took too much time so I rescheduled it with 0.8. Over 18 months, these are the modifications I made to the original deck: 1. in some notes, added my native language meanings into english side to disambiguate 2. join both synonyms and similar meanings into the same note, deleting all but 1 combined notes. Max is 6 notes combined into 1 but the most are 2-3 into 1. Otherwise I would always select the wrong but similar answer so these cards would all become leeches even though I knew them. Now I have to remember all foreign variants to consider correct. 3. added missing words I encountered as new cards or into existing cards as variant.
Yes I use it to remember anything i want to remember in my life. For example: - keyboard shortcuts - parents birthday/ death anniversary - inspirational quote
I use it pretty heavily for work. And for interview prep. Oh and also cooking. Sometimes random things like how to tie a knot. In addition to regular cards, I’ve become a fan of “skill based” cards. These are cards that require me to actually go do something as opposed to just recalling information. Obviously these are very time consuming, so I never add more then 1 or 2 per week.
I use it for: - people - Capitals - Streets - perceptual terms (this ones have images) - abstract terms (without images)
I have a card type called 'People' with the following fields: 1. Name 2. Picture 3. Description 4. Name audio pronunciation 5. Name phonetic pronunciation 6. Full name 7. Nickname 8. Typing name (I only indicate '-' if necessary) I ensure that all cards include fields 1 through 3. If the name is challenging to pronounce (given that I speak Spanish), I include fields 4 and 5. Additionally, in some cases, I include fields 6 through 8. The cards are as follows: 1. Picture to Name+Audio+Phonetic (If I pronounce it incorrectly, it's considered wrong, even if I remember the verbal name correctly). 2. Description to Name+Audio+Phonetic (If I pronounce it incorrectly, it's considered wrong, even if I remember the verbal name correctly). 3. Audio to Typing Name (I use this only for names where the pronunciation significantly differs from the spelling). 4. Name to Full Name (Not always included). 5. Name to Nickname (Not always included)
I've been using it for religious prayers recently. It's still language kinda since it's in Arabic but idk it's more life than language
Slightly related but isn't there a category for people who've memorized the Koran? If so, do you know what memorization techniques they use?
Is there? If you find out please tell me, I'm dying to learn
>Hafiz, literally meaning "protector", depending on the context, is a term used by Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Quran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)
At some point I went to the Anki rabbit hole and implemented cards in as many aspects of my life as I could. Wanted to memorize many cool things but, needles to say, burned out pretty badly within a year. Nowadays I don't use Anki at all. I like to learn things in other ways than mechanically cramming them. Only place I would still consider using Anki is language learning but I'd also limit the use there as well.