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I've also found Anki a good remedy to the "I feel bad that I don't remember this from undergrad" problem. I'm still nowhere near as fast at actually doing maths as when I was taking or teaching it. But now when some basic, relevant mathematical fact comes up in life and I've forgotten it, it just means there's one more thing I need to put into Anki, not that my mathematical knowledge is on a steady, irreversible downtrend.

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Likely unwanted commentary but how do you do leech handling/minimum information principle with your math cards? I'm a SuperMemo user and I think one of the biggest failures I see with Anki, in general, is that it doesn't handle leeches well (leeches are cards you repeatedly fail that end up taking most of your time) and failure to adhere to minimum information principle (only 1 thing to recall per card). I think with math this would become even more difficult if you make minute long cards to go over some proof you will definitely be setting yourself up to suffer.

I'm only one year into using Anki and to be honest mathematics hasn't been a huge focus for me, so I'm not a great person to ask. Have you read this article by Michael Nielsen? http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

I've noticed that I spend a lot of time on leeches and sometimes I go back to break them down into smaller pieces, but I haven't found it to be a major problem. How does SuperMemo handle it?

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