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honestly i get the theory behind spaced repetition, but the format of Anki cards doesnt work for me. it is just hard to get onboard with making Anki cards for myself. it feels like too atomic of a piece of knowledge and in making the card i've already internalized it or likely know all I need to know to look it up in future. I know this isn't 100% true, but thats the mental hurdle I have when thinking about why I dont make Anki cards.

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> it is just hard to get onboard with making Anki cards for myself

I just scraped some info from various sources, and used a bit of text processing to clean it up and get it into the semicolon-separated format for import into Anki.

No brainer.

You don't want to be making large numbers of Anki cards using its unwieldy UI.

> in making the card i've already internalized it

When you're making a new card, it may feel like you have it internalized, but that's only for a half hour or so. It's just short-term memory.

I understand your feeling, that's my biggest gripe too. Making cards is chore, with lots of copy-pasting and editing, sometimes even image editing. As time goes it also gets more and more disconnected from the context; I sometimes as myself, why did I even want to learn this?

Have you tried premade decks? What was your experience with those?

I find the act of creating the card is part of the process of memorizing and internalizing the fact. I agree with others here that using Anki can be a real chore sometimes; one has to devote a chunk of time just learning how to use Anki.

With more and more use, using Anki becomes second nature like with any application.

I got the most out of Anki after watching videos; this one in particular opened doors for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcr25334J8&t=99s

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