I found out about Anki years ago, though after I was out of college, and I attempted a couple times to integrate it into my study habits, but it’s never stuck. Up till now that’s been fine; I’ve been using iKnow was my primary SRS for vocab, with Read the Kanji kind of supplementing that. But I keep doing lessons for grammar, and then because I’m not really reviewing enough, forgetting the points soon after. This is pretty much the same issue I had in college, where it felt like I could only remember things for tests, but it wouldn’t really sink in.
So I’m trying Anki again? I could make a deck on iKnow, but that site is very geared to a specific type of review sets, so I thought it might be easier on Anki.
To my surprise, there’s a new Anki version that seems to have made the card creation process a lot more intuitive for me, so I’m kind of hoping that means it’ll be easier to use in general. I never really made my own decks before, because I’d always end up frustrated with the process. Though personally I also feel like using other people’s premade decks end up making things tedious, especially when they are gigantic things of hundreds of items that seem like I’ll never get through.
Since I’m making my own to review, I have less than 40 cards right now, including reversals, which is way more manageable. Hopefully it’ll mean I can keep up with my lessons better, since I can possibly just review for short periods during the day with Anki. iKnow is a little weird and difficult to do 1min or 2min reviews with, and even though I could turn off the sound on the app to use it at work, I don’t think it quite works as well that way.