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Yas! Are you familiar with Anki? How well does SRS in Roam work compared to Anki?
I’m trying to limit the amount of apps I use as much as possible. Having access to all my notes in my SRS is a dream come true.
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Yes, used Anki for years when I was learning Japanese :) It's great but very manual and best for stuff where there's an exact answer.
What I like about having it in Roam is that you can generate flashcards on the fly
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For me one advantage is to have all the info available, I can easily expand the original article, add notes or new connections I've thought of since etc-inspired by 's concept of programmable attention. Second is that it's at the bottom of my daily page
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Which is the first thing I look at every morning at the computer. Downsides are not good mobile support, and also slight worry that it will become unwieldy if I add to many cards.
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There are enormous advantages to using Roam, instead of Anki.
TL;DR:
in Roam, your flashcards can start to illuminate their own interconnections, in a way that Anki cards cannot.
If you try it in Roam for a few weeks, revising flashcards as they recur, I think you'll see it.
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I tend to agree. The structurelessness of Anki cards seems like an important fundamental limitation. Some notes in this vicinity: