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30 statements about Anki in 9 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26

2018

2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali says the flashcard app Anki is really good for memorising particular facts; he used it a lot for anatomy and pharmacology. — 00:14:41
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: Anki schedules each flashcard by how easy you rated it, using spaced repetition: an easy card may return in a day, a hard one in 10 minutes. (hedged) — 00:14:41
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: In his third-year psychology course, Ali used Anki to memorise paragraphs about studies, such as Karpicke and Blunt 2011, to drop into his exam essays. — 00:15:10
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali: A Cambridge medic friend of Ali's who gets a first every year uses Anki for nearly everything and now makes flashcards in lectures instead of notes. — 00:15:40
2018-04-04 · How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips — Ali says Anki is free on the web, while the iOS version costs a few pounds. (hedged) — 00:15:40
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — recommendation: Ali: For flashcards, Ali personally prefers the app Anki. — 00:09:09
2018-04-09 · How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips — Ali used Anki to memorise facts such as anatomy and pharmacology, and quotes from John Paul II and St Augustine for his ethics essays, which examiners seemed to love. (hedged) — 00:09:38
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: From 9.15 to about 10.45, in the lounge of his gym, Ali spends about an hour and a half going through his OSCE flashcards on Anki. — 00:00:58
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali's problem with flashcards is that you can do them for a while, but they get really boring really quickly. — 00:01:27
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali says that an hour and a half of flashcards makes the day a win even after wasting the first two hours, since he has done something useful even if he does no more work. — 00:01:27
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — Ali: Revising the hand examination, Ali makes sure he understands its principles, then writes questions an OSCE examiner might ask and adds them to his Anki deck so they come up in later reviews. — 00:01:56
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali prefers his spreadsheet method to Anki for much of his revision because spreadsheets are easy and Anki takes effort to set up: anything that reduces friction between wanting to do something and doing it is worth doing. — 00:14:45
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Katherine agrees Ali's spreadsheet method is more intuitive than Anki: it sorts by category easily, without Anki's tags, decks and filtered decks. — 00:15:14
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali can rarely be bothered to use Anki properly, skipping features such as cloze deletions and image occlusion, and keeps it simple with Google Sheets. — 00:15:43
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Katherine says if you are not willing to use Anki properly, don't use it at all: use paper flashcards or the spreadsheet method instead. — 00:16:11
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Katherine says a common Anki problem is spending something like 18 hours making flashcards, then having so many that you can't be bothered to go through them. — 00:16:11
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: In his first year Ali had more than 4,000 Anki cards, covering niche details he did not need, and never got through them. — 00:16:38
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Paul says active recall needs neither Anki nor Google Sheets: it is a way of life, trying to think about things every time before you look up the answer. — 00:17:02
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: For essay subjects Ali uses Anki to memorise building-block paragraphs, with quotes, dates and evidence, that fit many essays: a point on Romeo and Juliet, or Hodgkin and Huxley's giant squid axon experiments for essays on the sodium pump. — 00:19:29
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: For his psychology essays Ali memorised entire paragraphs, references included, word for word with Anki, introductions above all. — 00:20:04
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali really likes Anki for medical school: its iOS app costs £24, one of the best £24 he has ever spent, though Quizlet is free. — 00:03:40
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: For anatomy Ali advises Anki and Instant Anatomy, a website by the Cambridge anatomist Bob Whittaker, and learning the rules that cover a lot of ground, such as which nerve supplies a muscle group. — 00:06:22
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali made too many Anki cards in his first year; now he makes them only for the things he really struggles to remember. — 00:16:01
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: Proofs in maths should be memorised rather than derived in the exam, Ali says: his brother, who did maths, made many flashcards of proofs, and Anki or a spreadsheet works for this. — 00:06:33
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For neuroanatomy Ali advises drawing diagrams; he found Dr Najeeb's (as heard) YouTube lecture series useful and used Anki a lot. — 00:10:36
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali does not much like Anki: he used it for isolated facts in anatomy and pharmacology but now almost never does, preferring his spreadsheet method, which he thinks is much better. — 00:25:18
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For maths and statistics Ali advises past papers: Anki and his spreadsheet method are hard to apply there, but active recall is a way of life and past papers are a form of it. — 00:38:46
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali thinks active recall can be applied to memorising Chinese characters: friends of his learn them with Anki, which is exactly active recall. — 00:56:02
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For using active recall in medicine, Ali recommends Anki. — 00:04:35