[asab]

Anki was my introduction to spaced repetition and started me down a learning journey that I'm very happy to be taking. That said, Anki didn't end up sticking as the way I do spaced repetition - but it took me a long time to be able to articulate why. These days I am using Roam along with roam-toolkit. Having tried it this way, my biggest realization is that facts are memorable when they have many visceral associations. A corollary of this is that, to remember well, I should practice making lots of different connections between the things I know. Now when I do spaced repetition, I annotate things as I go, forming new connections and associations, then putting them in my knowledge graph forever (forever, knock on wood). By contrast, Anki feels like I am over-training flash cards in a very siloed and narrow way, such that the skill I learn is closer to "answering flash cards" as opposed to the actual thing I want to be good at.

[edylemond]

That's exactly my idea of a lifelong learning journey, spaced repetition where you build connections as you gain deeper understanding. I've built Traverse.link to do this natively (ie connected notes with spaced repetition), let me know if you find it helpful

[sharmi]

That is an interesting take on Anki.

I always saw Anki as an implementation of spaced repetition. What is your process?

How do you codify connections and associations into spaced repetition?

[asab]

Here's a concrete example. Some of my spaced repetition is to translate between languages. When I do a translation, if it's different from the canonical answer, I write it in below. Over time I have a list of the different ways I translated, which helps me notice when I repeat mistakes or of what kind.