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Comment author: Emile 28 October 2014 11:02:01AM *  4 points [-]

These days, most of my time on Anki is on Japanese (which I'm learning for fun) and Chinese (which I already know, but I'm brushing up on tones and characters).

Looking through my decks, I also have decks on:

  • Algorithms and data structures (from a couple books I read on that)
  • Communication (misc. tips on storytelling, giving talks, etc.)
  • Game Design (insights and concepts that seemed valuable)
  • German
  • Git and Unix Command Line commands
  • Haskell
  • Insight (misc. stuff that seemed interesting/important)
  • Mnemonics
  • Productivity (notes from Lukeprog's posts and vairous other sources)
  • Psychology and neuroscience
  • Rationality Habits (one of the few decks I have that come all made, from Anna Salmon I think, though I also added some stuff and delted others)
  • Statistics
  • Web Technologies (some stuff on Angular JS and CSS that I got tired of looking up all the time)

(also a few minor decks with very few cards)

I review those pretty much every day (I sometimes leave a few unfinished, depending on how much idle time I have in queues, transport, etc.)

Comment author: cursed 28 October 2014 09:23:39PM 2 points [-]

That's fantastic. How many cards total do you have, and how many minutes a day do you study?

Comment author: Emile 28 October 2014 10:01:47PM 2 points [-]

Apparently I have 6887 cards (though that includes those I suspended because they're boring, useless, too difficult, duplicated, or possibly wrong; I tend to often suspend cards instead of deleting them); of those around 3000 are Chinese pinyin cards I automatically created with a Python script (I set them up to get between 1 and 5 new ones per day, depending on how busy I tend to be), 1000 are Japanese (the biggest deck of manually-entered cards), and the remaining decks rarely go over 300 cards.

I study probably between 20 and 40 minutes per day, usually in public transit or during "downtime" (waiting in line, carrying the baby around the house hoping for him to sleep, in the restroom, the elevator...). The time depends of how many new cards I entered recently.