Anki

But a lot of this is not new.

You know, like Anki's been around for 20 years and flashcards have been around since, well...

since cards were around, I suppose.

The thing that AI allows you to do is to reduce the effort required to create them and perhaps allow you to build tools that are more specific to your very niche needs.

Yeah.

I think that if I was going to recommend any tool as a sort of memory tool, I would probably recommend Anki, A-N-K-I, which is a, it has some basic flat, like flashcard type features.

memory tools built into it.

It's based, built on spaced repetition.

But there's also a strength and a different kind of memorization and different exercise for your brain if you were to just throw all your memory cards into one thing.

It helps to sort of reinforce it in a different way.

And Anki will help you do that.

They have free apps for the web and for your tablet.

That's probably one of the biggest traps people fall into.

It's like, oh, if I just memorize all the textbooks, if I just do 300 Anki cards a day, I'll be fine.

That is not the case.

Way too many people waste months, months trying to memorize all the material.

You should not be waiting to do practice passages.

You should start doing practice passages on day one, right? Molly, I would love to hear what you think about this, because I'm a huge practice passage person.

Even when we talked about, we actually did an episode on Anki, because I'm actually not a huge Anki person.

That was my-

difficulty of not being able to understand.

And then the third thing that I did was Anki and I did a lot of Anki.

Flashcards.

And a

lot of Anki.

And I did all different types of flashcards too.

And I think the flashcards that were super helpful to me were sentences.

And so sometimes the card would test you Chinese on the front and I would repeat the Chinese and then think of the English in my head.

Or like, oh my God, you're the reason I applied to med school.

Or like, whoa, your Anki videos with the flashcards, you know, all that kind of stuff.

So there was definitely this era where I think I was probably the biggest one by views in terms of like study content, like evidence-based study tips and stuff.

Then that sort of morphed into sort of the productivity era and started vaguely talking about how to become a YouTuber and then we accidentally released a course on how to become a YouTuber which went which like blew up and then so that became a thing and then about a year ago I entered more into this how to build your own lifestyle business sort of arc So now we're sort of straddling these two zones.