The main point of this article is to discuss how to use Anki to enhance long-term memory. The primary reason is that Anki aligns with the memory system known as Spaced Repetition. By using Anki, you can significantly improve your ability to remember information. In this article, the author describes how he adapted Anki to learn from the AlphaGo paper. Following this success, he expanded the strategy to broader domains.

The most important reason is that making Anki cards is an act of understanding in itself. That is, figuring out good questions to ask, and good answers, is part of what it means to understand a new subject well. To use someone else's cards is to forgo much of that understanding.

Indeed, I believe the act of constructing the cards actually helps with memory. Memory researchers have repeatedly found that the more elaborately you encode a memory, the stronger the memory will be. By elaborative encoding, they mean essentially the richness of the associations you form.

My cards are always one of two types: the majority are simple question and answer; a substantial minority are what's called a cloze: a kind of fill-in-the-blanks test.

Finally, he elaborated on the conflict between book notes and Anki. Creating Anki cards takes time and effort, which can slow down reading. Perhaps the best strategy is to take notes first and then, at the end of the day, turn these notes into Anki cards.

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