Using Anki for Novel Thought Patterns
We can use Anki for the cases when you have a certain thought you want to be having or an action that you want to do in certain situations, but you forget about it or the trigger never fully comes to your attention.
Anki makes it so that these if-else action plans are always somewhere at the back of your mind, preferably not too far from the working memory, always at the edge of awareness.
How can I use this?: I can use it with productivity tips, and other things that I want to always be thinking at different points in time. Examples:
- Social to do in social situations
- Productivity things
- Good habits to follow
- Ways to treat Mulan
- How to follow through with tendencies, etc.
- Workout stuff — how to motivate myself to actually work out.
Implementation details
To try this strategy, you need to create a new deck in Anki, and create a Basic type note, which has e.g. “less than 3 minutes” on Front card and “If a task should take less than 3 minutes to complete, I will just do it instead of postponing it” on Back card. I have a “thought_pattern” tag associated with these notes.
Then go to deck options and create a new Options group. Key settings are:
Steps (in minutes) — I set to 1 5 10 40 120 360 1440, but you can experiment with this Graduating interval — 1 day Easy interval — 1 day Interval modifier — anything less than 100% (otherwise 1 day limit would be ignored) Maximum interval — 1 day
How to start using: https://docs.ankiweb.net/#/
Options for decks
max 1 day — a deck which contains thought patterns I want to review daily. max 21 days — a deck which contains formulas and concepts I want to be able to retrieve readily. It has a maximum interval of 21 days. max infinity — a deck which contains all the cards that I want to learn but don’t absolutely need to be able to recall immediately. poems — a deck which contains poems I’m learning. It has the same settings as “max 21 days” deck but I like to review poems separately.
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