Incremental reading in Anki - Revision history

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Issa at 04:09, 15 May 2020

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Issa at 02:38, 25 April 2020

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 * [[Large graduating interval as substitute for putting effort into making atomic cards]]
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 ==My deck options==
-As of 2020-04-24, here are my deck options for my incremental reading deck. The main things to note are that the graduating interval is 30 days, so you get to skip the "1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2.5 weeks", steps that you normally get (if you haven't tweaked your Anki settings much). This is good for incremental reading, since you don't want to be reading stuff so often. (I normally paste 1-3 paragraphs of text per card.) I almost always just press "good" when reviewing.
+As of 2020-04-24, here are my [[Anki deck options|deck options]] for my incremental reading deck. The main things to note are that the graduating interval is 30 days, so you get to skip the "1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2.5 weeks", steps that you normally get (if you haven't tweaked your Anki settings much). This is good for incremental reading, since you don't want to be reading stuff so often. (I normally paste 1-3 paragraphs of text per card.) I almost always just press "good" when reviewing.
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 feeling like i should maybe ankify some of my ai safety reading from LW, but it's been hard to think of what to even put in. some things maybe should just be read-only cards. i think the concepts are maybe too inchoate still to be useful to memorize.
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 The most important insight here is that you often ''don't'' know if something is important enough to go into spaced repetition. So the idea is to ''create an extra level of indirection'' by making that decision itself be on a spaced repetition schedule! That's what incremental reading is about. (credit goes to Master How to Learn guy for making me realize this)
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 [[Category:Spaced repetition]]

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 ==Analysis==
 Incremental reading provides feeling of emotional safety (which is something that [[Anki]] does in general, but where I think incremental reading does particularly well): it's like "now i won't forget this insightful quote, because i'll be reminded of it in the future. if i stop liking it, i can always remove it from the deck later". you might feel guilty about reading random articles online, especially if you realize that you hardly remember anything from them. and making regular anki cards is hard; you have to phrase the prompts in a particular way to make the card worth reviewing (it's highly non-trivial to write good Anki cards!). if the insight in the article isn't so great, you don't want to keep seeing it over the next few days. My version of incremental reading fixes both of these problems: it's easy to make the cards -- you just stick in the quote and a citation, and i've changed the deck settings so that the next review comes only about a month into the future. i don't feel pestered by either the card-creation process or the review process.
 I particularly like adding things that I don't quite understand into the incremental reading deck (see how we're breaking all the rules? the cards are super long, you don't do any active recall, and you're "memorizing" before you understand!), so that in a few years (after repeatedly getting shown the card + extra learning about the world) I will finally be able to understand/appreciate this wisdom.
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	Incremental reading provides feeling of emotional safety (which is something that [[Anki]] does in general, but where I think incremental reading does particularly well): it's like "now i won't forget this insightful quote, because i'll be reminded of it in the future. if i stop liking it, i can always remove it from the deck later". you might feel guilty about reading random articles online, especially if you realize that you hardly remember anything from them. and making regular anki cards is hard; you have to phrase the prompts in a particular way to make the card worth reviewing (it's highly non-trivial to write good Anki cards!). if the insight in the article isn't so great, you don't want to keep seeing it over the next few days. My version of incremental reading fixes both of these problems: it's easy to make the cards -- you just stick in the quote and a citation, and i've changed the deck settings so that the next review comes only about a month into the future. i don't feel pestered by either the card-creation process or the review process.		Incremental reading provides feeling of emotional safety (which is something that [[Anki]] does in general, but where I think incremental reading does particularly well): it's like "now i won't forget this insightful quote, because i'll be reminded of it in the future. if i stop liking it, i can always remove it from the deck later". you might feel guilty about reading random articles online, especially if you realize that you hardly remember anything from them. and making regular anki cards is hard; you have to phrase the prompts in a particular way to make the card worth reviewing (it's highly non-trivial to write good Anki cards!). if the insight in the article isn't so great, you don't want to keep seeing it over the next few days. My version of incremental reading fixes both of these problems: it's easy to make the cards -- you just stick in the quote and a citation, and i've changed the deck settings so that the next review comes only about a month into the future. i don't feel pestered by either the card-creation process or the review process.
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		+	I particularly like adding things that I don't quite understand into the incremental reading deck (see how we're breaking all the rules? the cards are super long, you don't do any active recall, and you're "memorizing" before you understand!), so that in a few years (after repeatedly getting shown the card + extra learning about the world) I will finally be able to understand/appreciate this wisdom.

	[[Category:Anki]]		[[Category:Anki]]

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	As of 2020-04-24, here are my deck options for my incremental reading deck:		As of 2020-04-24, here are my deck options for my incremental reading deck:

		+	New Cards:

		+	* Steps: 1
		+	* Order: Show new cards in order added
		+	* New cards/day: 1
		+	* Graduating interval: 30 days
		+	* Easy interval: 30 days
		+	* Starting ease: 250%
		+	* Bury related new cards until the next day: yes
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		+	Reviews:
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		+	* Maximum reviews/day: 100
		+	* Easy bonus: 130%
		+	* Interval modifier: 100%
		+	* Maximum interval: 36500 days
		+	* Bury related reviews until the next day: yes
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		+	Lapses:
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		+	* Steps: (blank)
		+	* New interval: 90%
		+	* Minimum interval: 1 days
		+	* Leech threshold: 8 lapses
		+	* Leech action; Suspend Card
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		+	General:
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		+	* Ignore answer times longer than 600 seconds
		+	* Show answer timer: no
		+	* Automatically play audio: yes
		+	* Always include question side when replaying audio: yes

	==Analysis==		==Analysis==

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	'''Incremental reading in Anki''' is not supported by default. There are some plugins for it, but I haven't tried them. My own approach is to add read-only cards (i.e. cards that have only a front side) and tinker with the deck options so that doing the reviews is not annoying.		'''Incremental reading in Anki''' is not supported by default. There are some plugins for it, but I haven't tried them. My own approach is to add read-only cards (i.e. cards that have only a front side) and tinker with the deck options so that doing the reviews is not annoying.
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		+	==My deck options==
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		+	As of 2020-04-24, here are my deck options for my incremental reading deck:
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		+	==Analysis==
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		+	Incremental reading provides feeling of emotional safety (which is something that [[Anki]] does in general, but where I think incremental reading does particularly well): it's like "now i won't forget this insightful quote, because i'll be reminded of it in the future. if i stop liking it, i can always remove it from the deck later". you might feel guilty about reading random articles online, especially if you realize that you hardly remember anything from them. and making regular anki cards is hard; you have to phrase the prompts in a particular way to make the card worth reviewing (it's highly non-trivial to write good Anki cards!). if the insight in the article isn't so great, you don't want to keep seeing it over the next few days. My version of incremental reading fixes both of these problems: it's easy to make the cards -- you just stick in the quote and a citation, and i've changed the deck settings so that the next review comes only about a month into the future. i don't feel pestered by either the card-creation process or the review process.

	[[Category:Anki]]		[[Category:Anki]]