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What (not necessarily LW-related) things do people find useful to Anki? (Or have Ankied but they turned out not to be useful, etc.)
Some things I have:
the NATO phonetic alphabet
mass of Earth/Moon/Sun, radius of Earth/Moon
log_2 of 1.25, 1.5 and 1.75, and log_10 of 2 through 9
The 68-95-99.7 rule
Some things that I noticed I had to keep looking up: which is which between SQL left and right joins; the argument order to python's
datetime.datetime.strptimefunction; the spellings of irrelevant and separateI think only the latter group have had any use worth speaking of so far, though the third and fourth are things that I have more than once wanted to know and not known. The first two may just be almost-useless (though I like knowing them, so not necessarily worthless).
Things I kind of want to remember but suspect they wouldn't be worth it include other alphabets, and locations of countries/US states/UK counties/London underground stops (the aggregate may be useful, but there's an awful lot of cards there).
Mnemonics
Using anki to memorize a complete 3 digit peg list allows you to do some pretty impressive memory feats, including recalling long lists in order, and memorizing really long numbers.
What kind of images do you use for the pegs?
Many people use the Major Method to come up with peg words/images so that the number to word relationship is nonrandom and easier to commit to memory. Here is an example of how it should work.
I choose to use peg words that are objects and not abstract verb/ideas. The number 201 can be 'nest' or 'incite', both of which satisfy the major mnemonic method, but using 'nest' as your peg word is better because it is an object that you can better picture in your head and create interactions between it and other peg objects, to create a string of events.
I've got a major system peg list of a 100 English words, but even there it was hard to come up with a word for a concrete object for all the combinations. Can you really find concrete object names for all of the 1000 sound combinations? There's an online list, but it has words that aren't concrete objects and several of the words don't seem to actually encode right (eg. its word for 55 is 'hello', which has only a single L-sound, and isn't an object. Mine is 'lily')
This is what I did, and its far from complete, I took the rememberg list and copied it to a txt file and then uploaded it to an anki deck, then I went through each peg word to make sure I like it, if not I replace it.
Rememberg uses the typographic system which is why 'hello' is is 55. I personally prefer the phonetic system. Also, I wouldn't like 'hello', as 'lily' is so much better.