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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What kind of materials do you use? Im finding it hard to find heavy weight index cards and all the thin ones you can see even pencil through
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I use Anki.
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Anki. Very easy to quickly make a ton of cards.
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I imagine it depends heavily on the subject matter. Have seen my foreign language proficiency explode from starting to use Anki a few months ago, but can only reliably ingest ~12 new cards / day if I want to stay under 10m.
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