what's going on guys in this video we're
gonna go over how to use Anki
effectively and efficiently so once
you've got ante downloaded open it up
you're gonna see something like this you
won't have all these ducks on the side
these are each decks that I created now
real quick I recommend you don't create
too many decks generally create just one
deck per test whether that's a subject
or a midterm or a final exam decide for
yourself I would generally just do one
for you know all of Cardiology so I
would have a test halfway through for
like a midterm I'd keep using that deck
and that would continue adding to it
afterwards if you have too many decks
that dilutes the purpose and you
probably are not gonna get to all your
cards so limit the number of decks you
have to create a deck go down here hit
create deck and add a card we're gonna
go up here the first type of cards
you're gonna see is a basic card type
it's essentially a flash card with a
front in the back so when you open it up
it's gonna have a front if you press
space that's the shortcut it'll show the
back now you great how difficult it was
down here so based on the difficulty
that you choose it'll show it again to
you at an interval based on that
difficulty this is the easy card for
example now the more effective and
efficient way to create on key cards is
called closed deletions these are
essentially fill in the blank cards so
let's say we have either notes we took
in class or a piece from a text book or
a review site or whatever we can just
copy the text paste it straight in and
just the formatting however we want and
highlight the parts that you want to
delete or I just say how that the parts
you want to fill in the blank for the
shortcut on Macs is shift command C and
when you do that it'll insert this code
which tells on key this is a fill in the
blank question
you can do that for as many times as
you'd like so let's see how that looks
this is the first blank we made and
here's a second think we made another
thing you can do is actually have these
show up at the exact same time so this
number after the C refers to an
individual card so this will have five
separate cards if we change this all to
the same number this will just count as
one card with three blanks so let me
show you how that looks
as you can see all three of these are
blank and I need to try to regurgitate
all three at the same time another thing
I recommend you do is insert images
wherever it's relevant so this extra
portion down here will show up when you
turn the card over to see the answer so
you can have text or you can insert
images that'll look like this having an
image really helps with your recall rate
so I recommend you do it as much as you
can but at the same time don't spend too
much time trying to find the perfect
image just having an image there is
better than no image it doesn't have to
be the perfect diagram or whatever so
the next type of card I want to show you
this is called ten questions this is a
custom template that you actually have
to create and I'll show you how to do it
in another video but I'm gonna show you
how it works first and it's really cool
so I'm gonna open up sketch this is what
I use to really quickly annotate images
so let's say I want to learn this
Anatomy I'm gonna copy this image and
paste it right here as the answer so
whenever I flip over any of these
question cards this answer card will
show now what I can do is I can go in
and actually blur out the parts that I
want to quiz myself on so here are the
three branches I'm gonna copy that image
go back and paste it and I can do this
as many times as I want or at least up
to ten
you can make even more if you'd like and
I can also put myself on this I'm gonna
show you what this looks like so here's
the question card when I flip it over
here's the answer again question and
answer so those are my main tips guys I
generally use closed deletions for most
everything actually if it's text at
least and I'll use the 10 questions for
quizzing myself on Anatomy or anything
image based such as a diagram or a table
now I actually rarely use the basic type
because these two generally cover most
things they're also much quicker to make
so try it out let me know what you think
if you guys have any questions leave
them in the comments below make sure you
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already and I will see you in that next
video