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> You are not making flashcards and you are not memorizing the answers. You are making quizzes and you are using Anki to check whether you are able to solve them. At least, that's what I hope.

I think you have this weird idea that flash cards are only good for memorizing the things written on them.

That's a really limiting, and false, idea.

A flash card is just a pairing of a specific question with a specific answer. How you use that simple framework is up to you.

I used them for trig identities. That was straight memorization.

I also used them for proofs. As in 'Prove every edge in G^k is a walk of length k in G'. Then I'd work through the proof, and check my answer against the one on the other side. That's not memorization.

It's still flashcards though.




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