Anki

#Psychology
Good resource: https://leananki.com/

• Essentially recommends avoiding tool-first thinking, or overoptimizing early
• Emphasize learning, which comes down to:
  • Productivity
    • Prioritizing what needs to be learned/scoping
    • Good learning requires focus
    • Priming yourself
  • Processing/encoding
    • Using higher-order learning by integrating new knowledge with past knowledge through elaborative rehearsal
    • Knowledge types
      • Factual
        • Rote memorization works fine, it's better to understand the vocab by understanding etymology for example or using mnemonics
      • Conceptual
        • Being able to link ideas, understanding what's the main idea, etc.
      • Procedural
        • Solve multiple types of problems
  • Retention
    • Where Anki comes in
    • Memory decays eventually, so you need to review every so often
      • Efficiency is improved more often by spending time properly encoding/processing the material though