Who is that person we had lunch with last month?
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a very dedicated user of the Anki app. It helps me learn and remember a lot of things, and it’s something I spent at least a bit of time with every day.
Like most things, though, it’s only as good as the information that you put into it. I’m pretty good about putting new people and ideas in there, but occasionally I’ll forget. This has come up a few times when Ali has asked me something like “who is that person we had lunch with last month?“
Usually, I’ll have the answer right away. When I don’t, it frustrates me a bit that I can’t remember, until I realize that they never made it into Anki and that’s why it’s slipped my mind. Over the past few months I’ve added a couple more tasks into my weekly preview, with one of them being to “Make sure that people I met or talked to last week are in Anki“.
I still miss a few, but now I probably catch 99% of those that need to be in there. I still may miss one again in the future, but hopefully the next time Ali asks for the name of the person is that we had lunch with last month, I’ll have the answer ready and waiting.
Hmm. I think TinyCards is gone. Duolingo closed it in September 2020. So... on the Full Focus Planner. -- I like some of the ideas, specifically three big things for weeks and days. However, I am a Franklin Planner person. I have the paper version with the binder and all. This is a great time of year to look into Full Focus as I'm getting ready to reorder my Franklin Planner fillers, but it will be a big change in investment in the cool red Franklin leather binder I have. Thanks for letting me know about another system! I am wondering if there is paper to fit into the Franklin Planner binger from the Ful Focus system. HAHA. I know that's probably not the point, but will pursue it anyway.
Sort of related (I think). A lot of times I remember stuff at the general level, but not the detail. I need to go look it up. And I'm sure I have it in one of my systems. And there's the problem, "one of." I use Evernote for most of my article archives (like some of your blog posts that I might want to re-reference). I use OneNote for a lot of my daily routine (bible, prayer, etc.). But for rapid access, I also put notes into contacts. For instance, for a restaurant, I'll have the basic info, but also in the notes I keep track when I was last there, who with, who the server was, etc. Very easy to find that quickly. But then there's the more obscure. I use Google Photos, and love it, but it's yet another archive of stuff. And I still have tons of stuff in Outlook tasks. And sometimes (mostly in the past), I had documents with reference information. And, of course, some stuff stays in email because I don't know that I might want it somewhere else.
So now, when I want to look up what I might know about Anki, it really could be in a lot of different places. And I'm pretty sure nobody has come up with a single, FAST, universal search. ** I would love to be wrong about that! **