Comment by montebicyclelo

My "Daily Life" deck is pretty small. But I fill it with things whenever I try to recall something and am embarrassed to not know it. Now I know them!

- Population of Tokyo / Tokyo metro area / Japan (where I live)

- Japan emergency numbers (like 911/411 in the US)

- kg <-> lb and km <-> mi conversion ratios

- My Japanese phone number (and my wife's)

- Number of neurons / synapses in a typical human brain

- Number of parameters in SOTA language models

- How many people work in my office

- Last 4 digits of a couple important credit cards, so I can identify them when UIs present me a choice of pre-saved CCs.

A few uses for me:

• Memorizing Geoguessr metas. Made it to Master I rank this way.

• Memorizing new words. When I come across a word I don't know, I make a new flashcard for it.

• Memorizing things about people. My wife's favorite ice cream flavors, which spices each of my children dislikes, etc.

Anything I want to memorize but wouldn't be exposed to frequently enough in my day to day life. Flashcard review takes only a few minutes each day.

Anything you wanna the retain the knowledge of. Basic usage is remebering shortcuts, names of people, apis, you name it. More advanced usage is you can break down complex concepts into atomic cards, which helps you remember how things work.

I'm using it to memorize all of the Paris métro stops and study for the French drivers license test. It was also a huge boon when I prepared for my citizenship interview.

I tried it for a while with my eldest child (then aged 3) to help her remember numbers, letters, etc. She didn't find it very fun past the first couple of times, so I figured I wasn't going to hoist it on her.

I used it whenever i studied anything, but with a 'recursive' twist.

Every time i did repetition, i've made a shorter note about the subject.

Then next repetition cycle, i'm reading the note, and making shorter note based on it. and so on.

once few cycles i'm re-reading the main starting note i made.

I used it to get my Amateur Radio license, since a superset of the questions that can be in the test are public.

I downloaded an existing deck and modified it so that only the correct answer is shown instead of multiple choices.

I still can remember some of the content even though I deleted the deck short after receiving my license.

For language learning I find that using longer phrase fragments is better than single words.

Everything, I use it to memorize anything that doesn't stick the first time.

I just don't use an app. I will challenge myself to remember things or practice things manually.

It's probably sub optimal compared to structured spaced repetition, but it works well enough for me.

Used to use it in university (CS) for cramming before tests, mostly when there were lots of definitions to memorize. Also summarizing stuff and writing your own cards for it helps already with learning itself.

I’ve been meaning to build a unix shell deck for a while. There are so many tools that are so powerful but I just don’t use them regularly enough to remember how they work when I need them.

I used it all throughout my legal studies, for remembering legal terms, concepts, tests and any other thing I had to learn. It served me very nicely.

There's an anki deck built from the jeopardy archive with 400,000 questions, so I'm studying trivia that way. I enjoy trivia.

Mine has all sorts of shit in it. Mac keyboard shortcuts. Nautical terms. Cyrillic characters. Credit card verification codes. Phone numbers. Airport codes. Ionic component names. Names of my friends’ kids. A surprising amount of Z Specification. Anything I think it would be useful to remember.

Used it to memorize the 16 times table in decimal and hexadecimal.

I use it to practice Leetcode problems