Hoping one day we can just reposition review-cards and not only new ones, it will much easier
The assumption is that if you’re just looking at a card, you probably already know it; you don’t need to study it; it’s literally just a test. Why change the order here?
Only new cards can be ordered, since you know one card and it’s gone until tomorrow, you move another one in 10 minutes, and you don’t know the current one and it should be shown again in 1 minute.
If you want to review something, just before an exam, that’s what the filter is for.
I see a flaw in the standard training, the way it sets 1m and 10m, because I think that’s not enough for good memorization. I set at least 1m, 10m, and 1h, and even then, it usually doesn’t work out in an hour. The main thing is to do 1m and 10m, and what’s written as 1h should be done before bed. That’s more effective. Some don’t consider learning complete in 1 minute 10 minutes, but instead set (for the beginning of the evening session) 1 minute 10 minutes 1 hour 6 hours 1 day 3 days 7 days—here, 1 hour is before bed, so 6 hours is in the morning. We reinforce the new learning with morning review. Then, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days—and they think that’s enough for high-quality memorization, and then the card becomes repeatable.
Everyone has their own experience with Anki; you should just try it on a simple test deck.
You have many subjects.
For each, you create a deck, let’s say: Subject 1, Subject 2, Subject 3.
Each subject is studied in specific time periods: a month, a semester, or a year. It’s best to divide it into the period during which you have assessments. For us, this can be a course, usually a year, and a course is divided into semesters (semesters). The folder hierarchy looks like this:
Subject 1
–Course 1
----Semester 1
----Semester 2
–Course 2
----Semester 3
----Semester 4
–Course 3
----Semester 5
----Semester 6
You look at these folders and immediately see how much knowledge you have on a particular subject for a given semester.
If you set the timeframe for the subjects you’re studying for a period you’re confident you’ll know (for some, 1m, 10m, 1d, 3d is enough, but it’s good to remember that it takes 14 days of daily repetition to form a habit), then even if you miss the subjects you’re reviewing, it’s no big deal.
So, we’ve come to the point where, if we’ve arranged the books so beautifully, how are we supposed to prepare for the second-year exam and the end-of-year exam? This means it’s for semesters 3 and 4, and not all the questions are there, just some? In the card overview, you highlight all the questions for semesters 3 and 4 (simply look at Course 2) and exclude the questions that weren’t included in the exam. Then, you tag all these entries as “exam.” So, when selecting groups of questions on a single topic, you can add the label “Topic 1” (in your case, “Diabetes”).
Then you can use the filter to select, say, Course 2 and all questions labeled “Diabetes” and “Exam.” If you select questions in the order you added the cards, the cards with “Diabetes” will be selected in the order you studied them. This way, you can select a single topic for all semesters of a single course, or you can select “Diabetes” from across your entire collection, meaning across all subjects. Filtering allows you to revisit these cards, even repeatedly, since you can configure it so that answer statistics aren’t taken into account. This filtering is described in the help.
I also use the filtering feature: I select a group of questions by marking them with a red flag. Then I filter by the flag color and only review questions with the red flag. If I already know the question, I mark it green. Then, the next time you re-set the filter, it won’t appear. If the question was difficult, I mark it with an orange flag. So, The easiest and slightly difficult questions are eliminated. A selection is made of the difficult ones, which are essential to repeat. Those left with a red flag are those that can’t be easily memorized. It’s advisable to avoid taking too many red questions at once, perhaps 20. If a person studies at all, they know half the material, which means half the questions might be easy, leaving only 10—the optimal amount of knowledge that needs to be repeated several times and thoroughly learned. It’s possible that one question out of 10 just won’t be learned; it’s extremely difficult. You can then mark it in a different color and perhaps skip studying altogether. You might get lucky and not be asked it, but you’ll save a lot of time and be better prepared for the remaining 90% of questions.
Well, you’ll still say you need a special order. Okay, let’s export it as a regular TXT file, without specifying the deck or numbers, and when importing this TXT file, specify that it be copied to another deck. Now We have two decks. This new one allows you to create an additional field, N, and manually set the order you want. Or simply sort the list of entries by the desired field, and then press the “Move” button to create a new order for the cards… or shuffle them and go through them again, or filter the cards you need and go through them like a regular deck.
Create a new profile and try something out.
