Hello, I am Wang Tian
Memorization is very important in learning, and self-testing is the best way to consolidate your memory and test your learning.
Teacher Fan Deng did well in school, but his books were clean and he never took any notes. He always ranked first in every exam.
Some students do not believe that he does not take notes in class, is secretly learning after class. In fact, no, the reason for good academic performance is that I have been using self-test learning method.
The conventional way of self-testing is to list several questions and then answer them one by one, which is very troublesome and difficult to do regular self-testing review.
Here I recommend Anki, a learning tool with a “self-test mechanism”, to help us test the learning effect, overcome the forgetting curve and improve memory.
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
Before introducing the software, let’s introduce the “forgetting curve”. When a knowledge or skill is learned and information is input into the brain, forgetting begins. The rate of forgetting increases first and then slows down as time goes by, especially in the short time just after learning, forgetting is the fastest. If you can review within a week, the recording rate can increase from 52% to 68%.
Anki is based on the Ebbinghoe mnemonic method, which is more efficient than traditional learning methods. It overcomes the forgetting curve, making your memory easier to remember, greatly reducing your learning time and increasing the amount of learning.
Anki is an electronic notebook composed of countless knowledge cards, in the form of content, supporting pictures, audio, video and text. You can use Anki to help you remember things in your daily life as well as learning. You can use it
Learn a language
Study for medical and law exams
Remember people’s names and faces
Review the difficult to remember technical terms
Handhold super detailed tutorial
Anki is compatible with Apple’s Android operating system and can be used on mobile computers. It is easy to import notes on the computer and convenient to review on the mobile phone. It is recommended to use them in combination. The installation of the mobile version is similar to that of the computer. The following are the steps for the installation of the computer version.
1. Download and install
1. Download the Anki installation file, open the package, and click Install to Install.
2 Adding a User
After the account is successfully installed, open the Anki shortcut on your desktop
Add an Account Anki supports the function of double body. Different types of things can be placed in different accounts. In the picture below, I added a user name of [Wang Naishuai].
Generally, it is enough to basically create a user account, the account can create a memory store for different content. After adding a user, return to the home page and click the Sync button to open the registration interface
3. Enter the registered email address and password
3 Create a memory bank and add knowledge cards
After account registration and login, the home page has many functions, generally used is [create memory library] [add] [sync].
1. Create a memory bank Each memory bank acts as a repository of knowledge, classifying different content, such as reading notes, problems encountered in work, concepts and terms of a certain discipline, and so on.
2. Add knowledge cards After the memory bank is created, add knowledge cards, which are divided into front and back. Add keywords in Front and description in Back.
“Cognitive Nature” mentioned that the essence of learning is knowledge chain + memory knot, which impressed me a lot. At this point, add a card to your reading memory.
Don’t write too much information in Front, write some key words to help us quickly recall.
It’s a bit boring just to review your reading notes. Add some important information about your life to the card.
For example, the mobile phone number of male and female friends, ID number, like to eat the food there are those, like to play what, a lot of….. To fill in.
You can say things like, “I can remember your ID number, your favorite foods, the movie that brought tears to your eyes, and you can’t remember anything. You don’t love me.”
Once the cards have been added, the first review begins. After each memory bank name, there are two grey zeros, which represent the number of cards you need to click on to review.
Click in and you will see the front of the knowledge card. Let’s recall the specific content according to the key words first, and then click to display the answer.
There are three learning status buttons on the reverse knowledge card. Click the corresponding buttons according to your own test situation. If you have trouble recalling the content during the self-test, click the “out of practice” button to start the next self-test.
3, synchronization,
After adding cards or reviewing knowledge cards, be sure to click “Sync” to store the contents of the memory bank in the cloud, so that the review cards can be synchronized in the mobile app.
I have added 196 knowledge cards since 2019.
The application process of APP is the same as that of computer. I will not explain it with a screenshot.
That’s how to use Anki. You might think it’s a hassle to use anki, but if you think about it, it’s not easy. If you find it hard to study, don’t think you’re doing it wrong.
Remember, the more cognitive effort you put into overcoming difficulties, the deeper and more solid you will learn.
If you think it is useful, you can pay attention to my namesake public account [Wang Naishuai] reply to Anki to get the download installation package