Using SRS for chemistry is strange. It took my awhile, and I am still learning and figuring out new things. Following the basic ideas of “as short as possible” even if it means splitting a concept into 4+ cards, all with different facts, on it is important. My early models for cards were these long elaborate sentences with 3+ facts per card. Ridiculously ineffective. It’s faster to just split it into several cards for easy digestion. How has it been going for you?

I wish I had more people like you in my circle of friends.

I guess you would say I am a bit overwhelmed by all of this. I have been using ANKI/SRS for language learning (with a great deal of success) and am just starting to try to use it for chemistry. Your website has inspired me a great deal, and I hope that I can learn how to use it for all of my classes.

I also want to say I appreciate your writing style and your minimalist design. It is easy on the eyes.

P. S. Last night, I told my friend that the Front Right is the best place to sit. He wasn’t so sure, but then again I can hardly convince anyone of the importance of using SRS so perhaps it’s my fault!

(Sorry for the long diatribe…)

Sure! The idea came from a bit in this post over on AJATT: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/chinese-project-notes-10-big-developments-anki-text-to-speech-cantonese-victory-calendar

I just took a big long piece of white paper and made these unmarked columns:

Date | # cards reviewed for Korean | # cards added for Korean | Subjective feeling of how I did immersion that day for Korean (-, checkmark, or star) | # reviews for classes | # new cards added for classes

I made enough columns for each day the rest of the semester, and by the end it was an impressive sight. It looked like a big scroll near my window and I was proud of it. It helped with motivation because at the end of the day I had to answer to the wall.

One thing I would change though would be to not set minimum limits for # cards added/reviewed. What happened was I would avoid it all day and then at the end of the day I would do 10 reviews so it would be acceptable to put on the wall. It became silly with several-day streaks of “10 reviews.”

Eventually I realized the deeper problem of motivation had to be tackled so I began figuring that out. Will be posting something soon on motivation in general.