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Apart from spaced repetition the other really big win in memory comes from finding more elaborate methods for encoding. Making Anki cards (rather than using another person's deck) is a great prod to elaborate encoding. So making decks seems like a feature, rather than a bug.
One other point, which I almost hesitate to mention - it seems kind of pretentious. But I think of the way you write cards as almost a "theory of understanding". Someone with a good theory will make really good cards that help your future self a lot.
Someone with a less good theory will make much less useful cards. It's worth working hard to improve your card-making process. You really can make vastly more useful cards, at least a small fraction of the time.
This is hard to describe in 280 characters, though Andy and I have talked about it quite a bit in person. But one example: I've developed an approach to making cards that helps me understand certain types of mathematics much, much better.
I won't try to describe it here (it'd take a hundred tweets or more), but the end result is (ideally) an understanding of a proof as just a single, very simple idea, which I am completely comfortable with, understand variations of, etc.
A little frustrated here - I'm struggling to convey this briefly. In any case, the point is: it's possible to develop quite elaborate card-making strategies which serve ends going far beyond simple memorization, & start to change how deeply you understand things.
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