michael_nielsen

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".

This was too complicated --- I always stumbled on the order of filename and linkname.

I broke the question in two: "What is the command and option to use to create a soft link?" A: "ln -s". And "What is the ordering of filename and linkname"

This sounds silly and obvious, but the improvement was very considerable: the two cards became trivial.

(There's something quite deep about memory in this example, which I don't understand.)