As a medical student, I use Anki for 5 years. It’s probably the most efficient way to learn a paramount amount of knowledge.
I set my decks to learn review-cards (green ones) before new-cards (blue ones). I also learn both of them in order (“order added” for review sort order) so it makes more sens when I learn (especially when I don’t have the time to learn a deck or a subdeck during weeks).
The majority of the concepts that we learn are explained in several books (diabetes for instance, in endocrinology, neurology, gynecology, pediatric, nephrology, …).
If I create cards from a first book which only explains the clinical features of a syndrome (peripheral neuropathy of diabetes in endocrinology), few months later (time during which I learned diabetes cards based on endocrinology book) a second book will provides more informations on a concept I’ve already seen and whose cards are in the middle of the deck (peripheral neuropathy of diabetes in neurology book).
After I learn the second books cards, the due-cards (green ones) of diabetes deck for exemple will not be in the order (endocrinology cards, and then neurology cards).
After 4 or 5 books for a single concept, you can easily imagine that I totally lose the benefits of the “learn in order settings” for my review-cards.
A way to solve this would be to allow repositioning review/due-cards (not only new ones) so we can study them in order (according to their position) when we chose “order adding”-setting for the “review sort order”.
thanks for the answer and tell me If I’m misunderstanding.
you suggest to create a deck for each book, and a subdeck for each "disease”.
The problem is that I gonna review my endocrinology cards and see some diabetes during it, some Cushing syndrome, hyperthyroidism…, and then during my neurology reviews, see Parkinson’s disease, some stoke, seizure disorder, and again some diabetes.
It’s rather scattered.
Furthermore, our books often provide common information, so I wouldn’t know in which deck I should create cards of concepts that are in three or four different books.
Something I forgot is that I tag the cards according to the books in which they appear, in case I want to review with filtered deck.
It’s not exactly clear to me what kind of ordering you are trying to achieve, so I used a book as an example of a single review unit. You can change the hierarchy of decks and subdecks to whatever suits your needs. The point is that if your cards come in blocks, which you want to control the review order of, making a subdeck from each block will allow you reordering them at any point.
If I want to add a new card in the middle of a deck (a deck I already learned, so I can’t reposition its cards), I should split this deck into 2 different subdecks, then create another subdeck which only contains one card (the one I want to add), and change the hierarchy of my 3 subdecks to have it all in the good order.
It could work, but takes a lot of time and creates a lot of subdecks for a single deck (diabetes for example) when it comes to add 5 or 10 single cards at 5 or 10 different places in my deck, for each new books I read on the concept of the deck (diabetes).
About the diabetes deck I created (initially from endocrinology books) and learned, for the moment I already added 20 cards (from nutrition and neurology books) that should fit into 10 different places in that deck to make the order logical. That means I should split my original diabetes deck into 11 subdecks to insert correctly 10 blocks of new-cards subdecks (with some block only containing 1 new card).
Sorry if I still haven’t understood what you mean.
If you mean what I understood, thanks anyway, it’s a good idea I didn’t think about. I can still use this idea with some little subjects treated by few books.
Hoping one day we can just reposition review-cards and not only new ones, it will much easier ^^