It isn’t the best practice to use a deck someone else made in Anki. Better to extract the relevant pieces yourself into your own cards, so you feel more of a personal connection with them. Downloading a big deck like this and getting stuck in review every day with something you never learned is a recipe for burning out and giving up on Anki
Or better yet: first write your own deck, then view someone else’s deck and add any cards you missed that look valuable. That way you feel ownership but also fill in any blind spots you had when making your deck.
Slightly unrelated, but the process for adding this deck to my Anki library was complex! I had to download the deck from ankiweb on my computer, install anki for desktop on my computer through the aur, which took 10 minutes to build from source, figure out how to login and sync the desktop app to ankiweb, and then upload the deck through the anki desktop app. Then I deleted anki from my desktop and synced the deck to my phone.
With all that out of the way, I’m ready to study these flashcards. Thanks for sharing.
You can import decks straight into the mobile app. Plus sign in the app -> Get shared decks -> search for Rust. Or just download the shared deck on mobile and open the .apkg file to import. Assuming it’s the same on iOS as on Android.
Thanks! I missed that. It’s slightly different on the iOS app, but it looks like I could have added it more simply by clicking Add/Export > Download Link.
It isn’t the best practice to use a deck someone else made in Anki. Better to extract the relevant pieces yourself into your own cards, so you feel more of a personal connection with them. Downloading a big deck like this and getting stuck in review every day with something you never learned is a recipe for burning out and giving up on Anki
See: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
There is definitely a case for using somebody else’s deck but it can definitely be very hit/miss.
Or better yet: first write your own deck, then view someone else’s deck and add any cards you missed that look valuable. That way you feel ownership but also fill in any blind spots you had when making your deck.
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I don’t know much about the Anki ecosystem - is there a way to provide a link I can click that lets me view these without installing any software?
UPDATE: Looks like I can view them directly in the GitHub Markdown interface here https://github.com/ad-si/Rust-Flashcards/blob/main/cards.md
Anki is worth getting into if you do any sort of studying that is enhanced via spaced-repetition flash cards. It’s a really powerful tool.
There’s also a PDF available on the releases page: https://github.com/ad-si/Rust-Flashcards/releases/download/v1.0.0/cards.pdf
It’s 1000+ pages though, even if only 1 MB, so Firefox’s PDF viewer seems to struggle with it. zathura works fine on desktop.
Slightly unrelated, but the process for adding this deck to my Anki library was complex! I had to download the deck from ankiweb on my computer, install anki for desktop on my computer through the aur, which took 10 minutes to build from source, figure out how to login and sync the desktop app to ankiweb, and then upload the deck through the anki desktop app. Then I deleted anki from my desktop and synced the deck to my phone.
With all that out of the way, I’m ready to study these flashcards. Thanks for sharing.
You can import decks straight into the mobile app. Plus sign in the app -> Get shared decks -> search for Rust. Or just download the shared deck on mobile and open the .apkg file to import. Assuming it’s the same on iOS as on Android.
Thanks! I missed that. It’s slightly different on the iOS app, but it looks like I could have added it more simply by clicking Add/Export > Download Link.
Pretty much everything around Anki is complex or convoluted but we put up with it because there’s no real alternative.