Rote memorization can be fine if you dont do it too much and become a grind

Yeah, there's plenty of shared decks for other kinds of subjects besides language learning. https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks

It's a pretty common, especially in medicine. You have to narrow it down quite a bit though, flashcards are designed to have one stimulus and one answer in mind, and just that. I once helped someone set up Anki and they coincidentally applied it to math too, but they dumped entire problems and situations onto single cards which is super hard to memorize. It's recommended that you divide those into steps and make each as simple and as to the point as possible, even if it sounds unintuitive. There's these very useful 20 rules for flashcards, and one of them is to avoid lists:
http://super-memory.com/articles/20rules.htm

Also, the general consensus is that understanding what you're dealing with is much more important than memorizing it. When it's integrated into a network and you can grasp its logic, that's when it becomes second nature, at that point forgetting curves stop being much of a problem.
For example, I've used the map deck and managed to recall the location of most countries in it, but that was a couple years ago and now I couldn't tell you where half of them are.
It's easier to remember where Vietnam is if you know how the Chinese lorded over them for a thousand years, that Cambodia is next door from the war between the two, that Sudan and Ethiopia lie south of Egypt if you know about their interactions through the Nile, or that Peru is right above Chile because of the Tawantinsuyu stretching into it. That's all stuff I'm not gonna forget, they reinforce each other.

I'm sure it works for people, but not for me. I have to learn through example, or whatever the term was. Japanese is so nonsensical, though, that the anki deck thing is probably one of the more rational ways to handle it. But when it comes to stuff I want to learn, like AI stuff or 3D modeling, I need to open the program(s) and use the mouse and keyboard to make the connection between thought and action or I lose the information pretty fast. I've said it before recently, but this is why I think I remember video game stuff but I forget anime stuff quite fast.
The advanced math I learned as a kid and teenager is nearly all gone, probably because it was just a bunch of stuff on paper that my brain couldn't make any connection over.

Looking at a cheat sheet disrupts my concentration, so I use flashcards to have the keyboard shortcuts somewhere in my head.

>>113828
>It's recommended that you divide those into steps and make each as simple and as to the point as possible, even if it sounds unintuitive
Actually thaat makes perfect sense to me when I account for the large study guides I used to write for classes back when I was still in Uni. Kinda wonder if the knowledge can disappear if there are any better ways to approach memorization than rote, since I've always wanted at some point to try going back to school to get my masters.

I used anki for pretty much everything my first time at university (for religious studies, not mathematics). In my experience, information encoded only through flashcards quickly feels disjointed and compartmentalised. You can recall the basic idea when prompted by anki, but the contours begin to feel fuzzy, you lose the big picture, you no longer make or remember connections to other topics, and recall otuside of anki can still be difficult. There are also some pitfalls for long-term anki study. This one has an easy solution, but if you don't make reverse cards, you'll find yourself in a situation where your recall only goes one way. You can see a word and remember the definition, but you often won't be able to recall the word from the definition. My advice would be to set aside time to actively revisit these topics rather than relying solely on anki.

Anyway, I did return to university recently (for mathematics, actually) and I don't use anki anymore. Instead, I mostly just memorise my notes. It's more time-consuming, but well-structured notes are not that difficult to memorise. Sometimes I make physical flashcards for major theorems and definitions to make sure I get the wording right, though. One nice thing about physical flashcards is that you can use them in different ways, like pulling two cards out and trying to find a connection between them.

>>113873
the /qa/ deck