The ancients considered written text as less authentic, and rightly so.
Oral knowledge is spread among the populance and can not be destroyed or distorted by few actors.
1. Use Cloze cards, not regular ones. Much more powerful. Also learn the shortcut for applying the Cloze label to a text selection.
2. Always create your own cards. I never download premade ones.
3. Break down things into small pieces. Cards should only be a sentence or two maximum.
4. Use audio, images, and animated gifs. Especially with languages, adding audio files to the cards is a game changer.
5. Create a deck for small random things and add them occasionally. For example, I can understand the alphabets in various foreign languages because I added the letters to Anki a few years ago.
6. Try adding stuff that you wouldn’t normally consider “necessary to memorize.” For example, a daily journal entry and notes from books you’ve read. Spaced Repetition guarantees that you will remember them over time. I try to do this with every book I read.
If you google around, I’m sure there is a solution to this problem somewhere.
Now that I think of it, I suppose you could export your decks then import them manually on a separate desktop /laptop. Not sure if that would work on mobile.
I know some of the ancients were skeptical of the impact of writing on knowledge and culture, but others seem to have held rather the opposite view:
Oral tradition can make these problems better because if one person has a distorted view of the text, they won’t be able to be certified as a reciter by their master. The Indians in particular had various checksum methods, plus a tradition of teaching how to pronounce things, which all would have made the text drift much slower than “a scribe messed this up and the only way to tell is to go to another region and see if their copy has the same words or not.”
Few days ago, had to explain someone some word that they mispronounced was actually pronounced as something else and what it meant in Sanskrit. (Had to learn some Sanskrit in high school).
The practices & customs are good only as long as the reasons / meaning are known. Otherwise they become superstitions. How many of your Indian priests actually study Upanishads? For most of them it's a job that brings food to the ~~table~~ banana leaf.
If anything, purely relying on oral transmission means that the further that knowledge moves away from its source, the further variations and slight changes that will occur... intentionally or unintentionally. It is the reason why when you try to collect old folk tales or mythological stories, it is difficult to figure out the canonical version of it.