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Any off-beat topics you use Anki for?

I know they have some shared decks here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

I’ve been using Anki to remember the books I read. Pretty powerful stuff. More here:

https://blog.readwise.io/remember-more-of-what-you-read-with...

Anki is super hacky for this purpose so we’ve actually developed into software purpose built for applying Active Recall and spaced repetition to what you read. (Readwise)

I'm just keeping lists of the books I've read, games I've played, and movies/series I've seen. The list is accessible from the CLI so I can perform voodoo on it. I've been doing this since early '00s. I don't see the point in remembering this data. There's a whole lot of other things I'd love to remember though, programming related for example...

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