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 “
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.
Yes, TinyCards is gone. It was so close to being great, but they never quite finished it and then just threw it away. I keep thinking there must be something better than Anki, since it has such a 1996 feel to it, but the algorithm is just so amazing.
The Full Focus Planner was amazing! I find I just can't live out of a paper planner, but I really did enjoy it and I took a lot of lessons from it back into my digital world.
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! **
That's indeed a major problem. For me, I'm trying to put all of that stuff in Roam. This works well for most things, but you make a great point about contacts.
I use Google Contacts (with help from ContactsPlus) for my main contacts, and then nat.app for helping remind me to reach out to folks. Both have great places for notes, and they're tempting to use (particularly Nat). However, I try to force myself to keep as much as possible in Roam, and it works pretty well.
As things like Roam and Obsidian mature, hopefully their APIs will expose more data and perhaps that magical fast universal search could eventually arrive.
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.
Yes, TinyCards is gone. It was so close to being great, but they never quite finished it and then just threw it away. I keep thinking there must be something better than Anki, since it has such a 1996 feel to it, but the algorithm is just so amazing.
The Full Focus Planner was amazing! I find I just can't live out of a paper planner, but I really did enjoy it and I took a lot of lessons from it back into my digital world.
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! **
That's indeed a major problem. For me, I'm trying to put all of that stuff in Roam. This works well for most things, but you make a great point about contacts.
I use Google Contacts (with help from ContactsPlus) for my main contacts, and then nat.app for helping remind me to reach out to folks. Both have great places for notes, and they're tempting to use (particularly Nat). However, I try to force myself to keep as much as possible in Roam, and it works pretty well.
As things like Roam and Obsidian mature, hopefully their APIs will expose more data and perhaps that magical fast universal search could eventually arrive.