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[–]originalhoopstamedicine 12 points13 points  (11 children)

I had a deck for medical school with ~100,000 cards (~75,000 notes), but after I deleted ~13K in redundant cards it became more manageable. Still drowning tho, plZ send help 😅

[–]WiggleBooks 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Thats absolutely crazy. Off topic question, but how much of the info in med school is retained afterwards when out interacting with the public and how much is actually needed? Is that something talked about at Med School?

[–]originalhoopstamedicine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha ... the info needed to practice (that you gained from med school) depends on your field, ... so med schools just teach you as much as they can. :) But medicine is changing all the time, so reading journal articles (when time allows) is the way for a doc to stay up to date on current clinical recommendations.

Tl;Dr: I don’t know how to answer that question :)

Edits:grammar

[–]tspin_double 3 points4 points  (4 children)

100k is absolutely wild. am in medical school, zanki + a micro supplement + my class cards puts me around ~30k cards

[–]originalhoopstamedicine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I did it again, I’d keep to ~30k and resist the FOMO! I got so behind that I wasn’t using Anki effectively anyways

[–]Sed59 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hey, I have a question about using multiple decks in medicine. Do you keep up with all of your reviews or do you just do them on a as-needed basis? I.e. For class cards, do you just go through them as you need them for your current block, or do you keep up with reviews for all of the cards even though most blocks don't matter for your current classwork? It just seems like a lot if you actually did all of your reviews. I can see how you would want to keep up more with Zanki reviews since those are directly board-relevant, but classes have a lot of extra info, I would think.

[–]tspin_double 2 points3 points  (1 child)

i do all of my reviews for zanki and sketchy micro and qbank decks but purge most of my class cards unless i think they reinforce a good concept or a detail worth remembering.

keeping the styling as close as possible between my self-made cards and zanki cards makes it a lot more manageable since your flow is maintained

[–]Sed59 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining! That makes a lot of sense in the long run.

[–]TheTobruklanguages 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Oh my God. That is massive. It puts in perspective how much stuff you had to learn. Now I know. Wow

[–]originalhoopstamedicine 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Nah. It’s more common for med students to have an Anki deck of ~10,000 to ~30,000 cards by the end. Anything more than that (in my opinion) isn’t using anki effectively. :)

[–]josephmisiti[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

why do you think if you have 100K cards you are not using it effectively ?

[–]originalhoopstamedicine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love anki and it’s helped me tremendously. But I fall behind often. I average ~550 reviews per day and just think the main concepts and facts to remember don’t take that many cards🤷‍♂️

[–]DrShitpostMDJDPhDMBAmedicine 5 points6 points  (3 children)

My name is Dr. Shitpost, and I'm an ankiholic.

[–]Verdictologist 1 point2 points  (1 child)

So what are these 192683 cards about :D

[–]DrShitpostMDJDPhDMBAmedicine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly suspended cards from premade decks for medicine, I unsuspend and consolidate them as I go through 'em. Also a language that I've barely started learning (German) and am trying to find a good course to pair with that deck.

Also Spanish, but that's mostly review.

[–]earth_nicelanguages 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahahahaa

[–]TheTobruklanguages 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Ive got 12k cards. 90% of that are medium/advanced English words I'd like to remember with translations to my native tongue. The rest is trivia that interests me like how stars are created and some interesting words in my native tongue that I didn't know.

[–]earth_nicelanguages 1 point2 points  (1 child)

how long did it take you to reach 12k?

[–]TheTobruklanguages 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before I knew about Anki I used to maintain a spreadsheet in excel. I think I had been making it for at least three years, then I got recommended Anki and with a click of a button my monster deck was created.

It needs a lot of polishing, though, as you may infer. I don't have any tags on new cards or images.

[–]comatosebunny 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Here's my main deck. I put i+1 cards into a separate deck, so this is my "sentence bank" deck basically. Number at the top.
https://imgur.com/a/wSDTy8a

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[–]inconditus 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Wow, this is a new record. Paging /u/gwern to update his srs page.

I would love to know:

1) how these cards are generated/what they're used for

2) how many hours you spend on Anki

3) how useful Anki has been for you

[–]comatosebunny 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nearly all of these are generated using subs2srs - so they have audio+text from various sources. Youtube videos, video games, tv shows, etc. So, it's native audio in different circumstances, i suppose.I only spend about an hour at most in anki a day. I spend the rest of the time used for studying to watch or read things in Japanese.Anki has been extremely useful for me. Being able to have a deck be filled with numerous example sentences with native audio has really added to my learning experience. I just move the ones I want to learn from to a different deck (for example, I'll search for a specific vocab/grammar point I want to nail into my head better and move those sentences to the "studying" deck). I find it to be a great tool - but I had to learn to not rely solely on it and to enjoy native materials more.

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Sorry for a bit of a rushed response - but if you'd ever like a more detailed reply I'd be happy to oblige!

[–]Maryamiyya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I heard about you from Gwern blog. I’m also learning Japanese and audio sentences are extremely important for my learning as well. I was wondering if you could share your deck or a copy of it so I could try it out. Thank you!

[–]josephmisiti[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

how is the ANKI software performance with that much data?

[–]comatosebunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can take up to ~3 minutes to actually close the program when I'm trying to turn off the computer. It takes a couple extra seconds too whenever I'm searching for something within that specific deck too. But nothing that really prevents me from using it.

[–]earth_nicelanguages 1 point2 points  (0 children)

9k now. 1 year deck. English to My L1 translations. intermediate - upper intermediate. (B1-B2)

[–]tall_chai_latte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My med school deck currently has about 20k cards, with 16k matured. But I will say that med school is a usage scenario where you generally don't want to make the bulk of your own cards. There are a number of high quality pre-made decks that are out there, and as a first year med student you have no idea what is or is not important enough to put into anki.

[–]josephmisiti[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 25K cards between two languages (italian, french, soon to be spanish too) and math, cs, vocabulary, and stuff i read about in books.