Anki Tutorial for iPad: to Study Smart & Hard

today's video I'm going to share how I use Anki on my iPad to study efficiently I've been using Anki for about 4 years now and it's helped me get better results three a Stars my a levels top in the class University with the same amount of effort the best thing about Anki is it allows you to focus what's inside of your control I focus on the lead measure which is reviewing the information that you're learning actively and doing that in a space period so the first step on how I create flash cards is I use image inclusion flash cards on the iPad so I print out the PDF on one note and I extract the important lecture slides into free form which is like this amazing app where you can make mind maps in an infinite canvas why I use the lecture slides to create flash cards is because it's so much quicker organizing them into a mind map of Concepts is essential to help me understand and help me see the bigger picture when I go in the lecture I highlight the information right on the lecture slides the important stuff that the lecture goes over then after the lecture I screenshot the group lecture slides just select and press command C and then you go over to an key and you press the clipboard on the image inclusion paste it in and then I press boxes of the highlighted information that the lecturer went over that was important I create one flash card for about four lecture slides and it's really helpful I do it by selecting all the boxes and just grouping them together as a mechanical engineering student I find the image inclusion flash cards the best because it allows me to look over an example and see the key pieces of information I need to memorize the equations how you have to subve this equation into a different one and it allows me to link and understand the information much better another great thing about the image inclusion flash cards and using the iPad especially is that when I'm watching my lecturer go over the example on the board I can take a picture of his working or her working and highlight the bits of information that are important the P key equations the key steps and allows me to memorize quicker because I can see not only the derivation but I can memorize where I was when I was watching that lecture the second step is how to review flash cards actively so how I've done this is I make a routine before I start reviewing the flash cards I make sure I have water with me I make sure that I have my physical timer there ready to start I put my airpods in my ears and I just get into the his own and another thing that really helps me is doing it at the same time every single day I do it first thing in the morning I review all my flash cards straight away and then I create flash cards then I do past papers so reviewing the flash cards is always the main priority every single day another thing which allows it to be more satisfying is I use a little controller it gamifies studying for me cuz I don't know when you're holding a controller in your hand and it's really cute I hold it my left hand hold my pen in my right hand and scribble over a physical piece of paper it allows me to be much more efficient as I just said the physical piece of paper is crucial for me because it allows me to teach the information by making a mind map and I put my bear in front of me I forgot about him put him in front of me and act as if I'm the lecturer teaching the lecture slides on my iPad to him and um I look a bit mental I look a bit crazy but I do it and um yeah it really helped stick in my head if I don't have piece of paper in front of me I use the scratch Pad feature in the ankey which is amazing these are the settings that you can start you can annotate over the actual flash card I do this for some questions especially like diagrams I need to fill in the blanks I think I I highly recommend it another thing is that when I don't understand the flash card I'm going over I make sure I add a YouTube video into it I've made a video about this it really helps me um understand the information and understand the context of the information as well by seeing it in the real life scenario with like a real life manufacturing drill been used or something for example for me for me to actually memorize content I have to be able to understand it first and that's a crucial step when reviewing flashcards be honest with yourself be honest if you actually know the information if you actually understand the information or you're just regurgitating it um I use a notebook a little just Ming notebook to keep me accountable I time block my study sessions I write just a bullet point list and cross sit out when I finished it really helps me it's very satisfying I do that for a very short period just 5 minutes a day if I do anything longer I get diminishing returns and I get stressed out hope this video helps you please give me a like And subscribe and comment with any questions you have I hope you have a beautiful rest of your week and thank you very much for watching peace

Channel: James Morris

Views: 7,955

Keywords: Alevel, Studytips, Habits, Studymethod, Engineeringstudent

Id: oseeQhUPJX4

Length: 4min 51sec (291 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 20 2023