![]() ![]() In the cases where I finished my reviews early, I could use the extra time to review or collate new knowledge. In hindsight, what I should have done - insteading of dialing down my yellow brick road to match the amount of reviewing I needed to do - was to commit to using Anki for a minimum amount of time each session. Sure enough, by making my goals easier, I upset the habits I was trying to form, and promptly fell off the yellow brick road. Humans don’t get into the habit of doing things every second day. While previously the Beeminder emails and my slowly developing habits had me using Anki almost every day, I was now in a position where I could skip days.īut that’s not how habitualisation works. “Humans don’t get into the habit of doing things every second day.” So I decided, logically enough, that I could retain the knowledge I had learnt with less time expense by only using Anki every second day. Using Anki every day meant that I was learning very effectively but as a result, the number of cards I had to practice each day had become very small, and it hardly seemed like firing up anki was worth it. Since Anki only takes a few minutes each day, things would go great, even when I had a hectic lifestyle with lots of travel. On days when I’m travelling or otherwise off my regular routine, there was always the Beeminder email bot to remind me, and I’d already got into the habit of making sure my Beeminder goals were complete before going to bed. This was great, because it had me integrate Anki into part of my routine studying Anki cards is what I would do with my second coffee each day. Since I had a tight schedule, and never built up a large safety buffer, I was always close to falling off the road. Using Beeminder, I set a goal to use Anki six times per week, and for the next hundred days, I did great. I had also written a basic wrapper to submit data to Beeminder whenever I started Anki on my laptop. Getting you to recall knowledge just before you’re about to forget it, and at increasing intervals to make sure it works its way into your long term memory.Īnki is free, open source, and there are many pre-existing decks that can be downloaded and used. ![]() I was delighted, because it meant I could get into the habit of using Anki,Ī fabulous program for loading information into your brain. Habits cause us to do things on autopilot, without thinking or effort.īecause they’re so powerful, we spend a lot of time working on developing good habits.įlossing our teeth, arriving at work on time, going to the gym. Habits are one of the best, and worst, features of being a human. In point of disclosure, Paul is a personal friend of ours, but he didn’t try Beeminder because he liked us. ![]() We’re exceedingly proud to have his endorsement, which, belying the title, really is an endorsement! This is a guest post by Paul Fenwick ( founder of Perl Training Australia and internationally acclaimed public speaker and expert on mindhacks. ![]()
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