In spaced repetition, it's tempting to ponder per-card cost—"should I pay three minutes over my lifetime to memorize this?" But for me, marginal cards are effectively *free* to add: 1. I review cards in time that'd be dead anyway. 2. I can't add enough cards to fill that time.
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Once one's attention is on the writing-a-card cost, environment becomes a key barrier. The cost is way higher on a smartphone keyboard, so I make cards on my laptop. But my habits often misalign: I read while out, I read in bed, etc—the laptop's not around. Gotta "buffer" cards…
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I'd be interested to know what potential cards you did not write and for what reasons. I've struggled to start Anki a few times. Perhaps bc I didn't feel I was making useful cards for myself.
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Simplest category: 100s or, alas, probably 1000s not written because they’re things I found striking when reading away from a computer, and I failed to follow up (hard to build that workflow).
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