michael_nielsen

I tried (and failed) several times to take Anki up.

But what finally made Anki "take" was frustration that I'd never really learned the Unix command line.

For fun, I wondered if it might be possible to use Anki to essentially completely memorize a (short!) book on the command line. It was. I didn't memorize all options, but I did memorize nearly all I could imagine ever using. This was very exciting!

A caveat: there is a difference between remembering facts and mastering processes. It's one thing to know a command; it's another to actually type the command.

To really internalize a process, you need to actually do the process. Still, I've found the transfer relatively easy.

(I've experimented with miming the actions while reviewing cards, but it doesn't work so well and is annoying.)

It's best to make cards as atomic as possible.

An example: when learning about soft linking I initially had a question "How to create a soft link?" with answer "ln -s filename linkname".