I frequently will just take a snapshot of the answer and paste unformatted.īasic-and-reversed can have multiple answers.
Most code snippets are hard to format to fit basic-and-reversed. It's hard to format screenshots to fit front-and-back or cloze formats. Screenshots from Video Tutorials (YouTube, etc) Takes slightly more time to add.Ĭategories and Recommended Card Types Category Proper cloze cards add meaningful context and improve fundamental understanding.
I'm not saying beginners to stop reading this guide. Read the Beginner's Section below and visit after: Beginner's Guideįor Anki beginners, habit & friction is your enemy. If any bullet points need elaboration, please let me know.
I will continuously update this from feedback and suggestions. While I focus on Anki a bit, principles from this guide also apply to SuperMemo.
This Anki guide assumes the reader is familiar with these topics:įor an introduction to Spaced Repetition and Anki, please read this earlier article - How Anki Saved My Software Career. In this guide, I'll explain the avoidable (dumb) mistakes, but also provide the effective strategies I found along the way. My total deck recently passed ten thousand cards (EDIT: now 14k). It's the one important secret that has helped my software engineering career.
If I searched in StackOverflow, I'd add it to Anki. For the past few years, Anki has acted as my digital memory storage (albeit, imperfect).