Summarizing a lot, there is a massive different between a generic tool "for anything" and a custom one for a specific field – let that be languages, chess, music, or whatever.
F. ex. Anki is not suited for long-form content, dealing with audio is a pain, won't let you do shadowing exercises, doesn't know what a synonym is, doesn't know your vocabulary size – so it can't even try to help you in an interesting way, etc.
Then, community-maintained plugins make a very disjointed experience IMO. F. ex. a few years ago there was a good Forvo plugin, then one day stopped working, and that was it – no more plugin, end of the story.
What do you think about Anki? Are you a power user?
Thanks for the long reply - I'm a long term Anki user, more so out of having a process "that works", and that I'm used to, rather than it being some miracle tool.
Exactly, I think many long terms users managed to create a setup and workflow that work for them, and they are just happy with that.
I'm sure there are many use cases that I am not aware of.
Anki pretty much popularized spaced repetition after all, much more than SuperMemo.
Welcome! Thoughts on Anki?
Many! :)
Summarizing a lot, there is a massive different between a generic tool "for anything" and a custom one for a specific field – let that be languages, chess, music, or whatever.
F. ex. Anki is not suited for long-form content, dealing with audio is a pain, won't let you do shadowing exercises, doesn't know what a synonym is, doesn't know your vocabulary size – so it can't even try to help you in an interesting way, etc.
Then, community-maintained plugins make a very disjointed experience IMO. F. ex. a few years ago there was a good Forvo plugin, then one day stopped working, and that was it – no more plugin, end of the story.
What do you think about Anki? Are you a power user?
Thanks for the long reply - I'm a long term Anki user, more so out of having a process "that works", and that I'm used to, rather than it being some miracle tool.
What do you see as its strengths?
Exactly, I think many long terms users managed to create a setup and workflow that work for them, and they are just happy with that.
I'm sure there are many use cases that I am not aware of.
Anki pretty much popularized spaced repetition after all, much more than SuperMemo.