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I was obsessed with language learning when I was an undergraduate. I spent a bunch of time learning Spanish and Russian with a bit of German and ASL thrown in. At one point, I manually entered an entire book of Spanish vocabulary in to Anki. My vocabulary exploded. Ever since, I’ve had spaced repetition on spaced repetition on the mind.

In Fall 2025, a student came to me asking about how to use Anki for mathematics. This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole of reading¹. After years of liking the idea of spaced repetition in theory, I decided to try it out again. I installed Anki and added the following add-ons.

• Review Heatmap - AnkiWeb: The add-on that everyone on Reddit uses to visualize their progress.
• LPCG (Lyrics/Poetry Cloze Generator) - AnkiWeb: An add-on by Soren for memorizing poems.
  • LPCG Documentarion

Links #

• Gwern: Spaced Repetition
• Effective Spaced Repetition
• An Opinionated Guide to Using Anki Correctly — LessWrong
  • Key ideas: Only 20 cards a day.
  • Save anything for ankification instantly

Published: Jan 1, 2026 @ 17:35.
Last Modified: Jan 9, 2026 @ 21:33.

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