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Free Anki Flashcards: How to Download Shared Decks in 5 Easy Steps

By Bill Powell

Many people offer their flashcards as free shared decks. You can download these decks, and skip the hassle of typing up your own cards. Language vocabulary is especially popular. Always check for a shared deck on your topic.

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Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2011

Memorize an "Entire" Book: Make the Good Parts into Flashcards

By Bill Powell

If you want to keep what you read, the first step is to collect the parts you want to memorize as you read. After you finish the book, you make those parts into memorable flashcards. Here’s how.

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  • The SuperMemo “Twenty Rules” for making flashcards. I don’t agree with all his advice, but this article (and this site) is a goldmine of information about memorization. Lots of good advice, from the author of the first major spaced repetition program that I know of. (You can still get SuperMemo, but it’s closed source, and not available on Linux, so I use Anki.)
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Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2011

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Bill Powell has memorized thousands of lines of poetry, over a thousand verses of the Bible, and thousands of facts from books he has read. Through extensive research, he has found a unique combination of memory techniques that actually work in real life. Impressive? Sure. But keep reading.

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