I believe that, for a student, history is more about acquiring knowledge than skill. And SRS works better for the former. Where am I wrong?
Are all fields equally approachable with SRS? I am not questioning the spacing effect, but the adequateness of the software.
I agree with your second point, the inconvenience is trivial. I was generalizing from my own preferences.
I believe that, for a student, history is more about acquiring knowledge than skill. And SRS works better for the former. Where am I wrong?
That's true. You can't learn to play basketball by using Anki. On the other hand in most scientific fields knowledge is important.
I'm interested in trying to make better Anki decks for the LessWrong community, but I want to see how well I can actually do this first. There's a lot of knowledge out there about how to format and create decks, but it's still a decent amount of work, and there are lots of people who would benefit from Anki decks, but who wouldn't make them themselves.
In order to test my deck-creation skills, I'd be willing to do a summary + deck of a chapter or two of a book, then release them to the community for feedback.
I have two questions:
These links are fairly useful/relevant.
http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm
As a side note: I still do intend to do this, but have been fairly busy with the start of this semester. If there's no progress by March 1st, then you should consider this to be on indefinite pause.