FAQs | Resolves #55 - #62
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Toby-Rea
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Toby-Rea
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- Create new FAQs component with accordion-style expandable items
- The FAQs can be updated as required, these should cover the most common questions?
- Create new FAQs component with accordion-style expandable items - Add four important questions addressing common user concerns - Content sourced from official Anki documentation
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Another thing I noticed: sometimes you use "string here" and sometimes 'string here'. Would be great to uniform that.
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| id: 'why-not-all-cards', | ||
| question: "Why isn't Anki showing me all my cards?", | ||
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| "Anki uses spaced repetition to optimize your learning. It strategically determines which cards you see based on when you're likely to forget them, rather than showing all cards at once. This approach helps you remember large amounts of material for a long time.", | ||
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This doesn't really answer the question. At least not directly. I guess the answer to "Why isn't Anki showing me all my cards?" would be something along the lines of: "Because showing all of your cards at once is inefficient. You do not have to see and review every single card every day. Essentially, every information we learn will decay over time. How fast it decays depends on several factors, such as the amount of exposure you had to this information. Anki uses this to provide you intervals that decrease your workload and increase the amount of cards learned."
Aside from that: I'd like to have a "to review" or similar in the question. Anki does show you every card if you use filtered decks or simply go to the browser. And if this FAQ is on the website, people might get the wrong idea.
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| id: 'how-many-new-cards', | ||
| question: 'How many new cards should I study per day?', | ||
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| 'By default, Anki shows a maximum of 20 new cards daily. This prevents overwhelming your review schedule, since each new card requires follow-up reviews in subsequent days. You can adjust this limit based on your learning capacity.', | ||
| }, |
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This also doesn't really answer the question. I don't think there is a good answer for "How many new cards should I study per day?" anyways. It depends on several factors, such as the time you can spend on studying per day, the material you learn, your cognitive ability / ability to learn and remember.
Maybe we could add this statement to the faq instead. We could add that anki shows a max. of 20 new cards a day and that it can be adjusted. But we should avoid claims like "This prevents overwhelming your review schedule" because it might be the case for some users but way to much for other users.
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| id: 'when-to-review', | ||
| question: 'When should I review my cards?', | ||
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| "Unless you have an upcoming exam, follow Anki's scheduling recommendations rather than reviewing cards multiple times yourself. Research shows it's more efficient to wait for the optimal review time than to view the same content repeatedly.", | ||
| }, |
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Research shows it's more efficient to wait for the optimal review time than to view the same content repeatedly.
Does it, though? I learned the opposite while I studied psychology. Repeating it more often will be less efficient for sure; but it will lead to overlearning in the "worst case" scenario (the ABCs are a great example of that. Children learn and repeat it really often, be it in songs, in school or at other events. It lead to them learning a random array of characters in a specific order. Even if we do not learn the ABCs anymore as adults and even if multiple years or decades are passing, we still will be able to recall that random ordered array of characters due to overlearning).
That being said: Maybe science progressed in that regard and my info is simply outdated.
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All of the FAQs I presented were compiled based on content in the Anki FAQs site. The wording and choice of FAQs are at least placeholders until we can decide on what exactly to show. |
Good point, I'm unsure why Prettier didn't catch this, I'll review the ruleset |
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Maybe linking to https://faqs.ankiweb.net/ is good enough so we don't have to worry about the wording and deciding what questions are common enough to be worth adding to the landing page? |
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