When I started using spaced repetition, I felt weird internal pressure not to make too many flashcards. That was wrong-headed: empirically, I easily absorb cards faster than I can reasonably create them (myself), and it feels way better to just create tons indiscriminately.
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It actually feels kind of like a weird conservation-law violation? No matter how many cards I write, it seems I can soak them up by spending ten minutes or less per day. I assume that at some point I'll hit a limit, but it's way, way higher than I thought it was!
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(Most of the time, I use a limit to introduce only ~40 new cards each day, which nicely smooths out the considerable day-to-day variation in my card creation rate)
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Yeah, still Anki.
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Do you think the fact you create the cards yourself plays a role? I.e. do you remember them better because you put work into making them?
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I think the act of making them is part of forming a densely connected network of understanding. I don't know that it makes learning the card reliably faster, but I think it increases the value of the successfully-learned card (i.e. it's better-connected to other knowledge).
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Is it too much to ask for what actual card/cards of yours look like? Have you gotten "better" at making cards the longer you've used the system?
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Sure, here’s one. Yes, I definitely get better with time. See also augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
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Do you find yourself suspending or burying cards often? I'd expect that to be more frequent if you kept adding cards indiscriminately.
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I’d say something like 1:200 or 1:300. More often they get refactored into different cards and deleted.
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