A Complete Guide to Getting Started with Anki

If you’re a student, use flashcards to remember *everything*

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Intense 11-hour cram sessions, coffee-fueled all-nighters, complete exhaustion and mental breakdowns — it’s all just a part of school, right?

Well, no.

There’s a better way.

And it’s with Anki.

The ‘better’ way to learn

Right now, you probably wait until the last minute to read over your entire textbook and highlight all your notes. You stuff everything into your short-term memory in the small, fragile hope you remember it all tomorrow morning.

Now, there’s a lot of downsides to this, mainly:

• a) it really sucks and is not fun to do
• b) you probably won’t remember everything for the test anyways
• c) beyond that, you probably won’t remember any of the content a few weeks later…which is problematic if you have to take a cumulative test or build off of your knowledge for another topic

The solution to all those things is simple:

Put everything into your long-term memory by studying a little bit every day, so you remember it all for (essentially) forever.