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3 Post author: mapnoterritory 05 September 2012 09:11PM

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Comment author: hackerkiba 06 September 2012 07:16:19PM 0 points [-]

What is the bottleneck with learning knowledge with Anki then?

Also, I don't think the deck is useless. It just needs improvement.

Comment author: ChristianKl 07 September 2012 09:47:42AM 3 points [-]

Forgetting items and thus having to repeat them is the bottleneck.

(1) "Do not learn if you do not understand" and (2) "Learn before you memorize" are key rules for learning with a spaced repetition system.

If someone simply takes this deck without the underlying concepts in the Wiki, he's likely to try to memorize stuff that he doesn't fully understand.

"Read about a concept -> Understand it -> Make a card for it" is more effective than using a premade deck. Making minimum information cards in itself force you to understand a concept. You have to determine what's important about it.