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I’ve used Anki prior and always wished there was an easy way to inject a bit of randomness into it.

For instance, you could have the idea of a “template” such as

<Pronoun> <Tense of to go> <Place> and <Same Tense of to see> a <Noun>.

A lot of times things probably would be a bit non sensical such as

“They went to the bank and saw an apple.”

“She will go to the Eiffel Tower to see a motorboat.”

But I always thought it would really help me a lot more than the more rote aspects.

Of course, then the spaced repetition might be less effective due to the variety of the same card, and it may be more like studying something new.



I think you can embed JavaScript in a card so you could do this. You'd probably want something to help you create them though.




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