Anki - a great learning tool

I recently found this learning tool called "Anki."

It's a flashcard system which is nothing new... but what it does that's fantastic is that it times out the recurrence of the cards in order to increase memory by "spaced repetition.".  

I know there are a lot of students here and I cannot recommend this enough.  There are a bunch of card sets for various subjects already - but you can very eaily make your own as well.

A spaced repetition system is a great thing because it addresses how we learn.  (Mneumonics is another way and someday I should blog about that.)

So - whatever it  is your trying to learn - a language, math, programming, legal terms, accounting terminology, greek gods, whatever - try this out and I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Oh yeah, and it's free.  And it works on mac, pc, even iphone and windows mobile..

http://ichi2.net/anki/index.html

Be sure to watch the intro to understand how it works (very simple)

http://ichi2.net/anki/screencast1.html

Enjoy learning!