[diNgUrAndI]

I used Anki for quite a few years now and accumulated a bunch of cards. What I found:

- Anki is helpful in helping me to remember language facts (which is relatively simple in structure and not complicated)

- Anki doesn't replace the work to accomplish deep understanding.

- Converting others quotes/articles/stackoverflow answers into cards without processing in the brain doesn't help. it could be even worse because I got drowned in details and got confused when I didn't form my own system of understanding of the thing I want to learn. You see trees without seeing forest, that kind of thing.

- The process of forcing myself to simplify ideas into Q&A cards is one important help towards learning from Anki (or flashcards in general). The second important help is the Q&A is relatively easy to pick up the memory.

Based on this type of thinking, a better tool may be a way of jotting down the notes, automatically sync them with Anki database. It has to be a two way sync though because both directions have input. That way, we save the huge effort of converting ideas into flashcards.