I think the problem is Anki is advertized as digital flashcards when it's actually SRS. When you can't use it as digital flashcards, people without copious time to work around its peculiarities will consider it useless.
> Once I complete the day and still have energy left, I'd move on the the next day and continue until I'm tired.
How can you finish a day without finishing its material? That's what ultimately frustrated my wife. Anki prevented her from getting through all of the material in the med school decks she got from a classmate. She stoped trying it after a few days because her time was better spent studying directly.
> Every classmate I talk to either uses Anki or a local commercial SRS specifically made for my country's med school curriculum/exams.
My experience with a US med school was some students used Anki. Most didn't.
>How can you finish a day without finishing its material? That's what ultimately frustrated my wife.
Well, I don't think anyone can actually finish a day's worth of material in just one day. What Anki does is it helps you plan out how to spread your material so you use your time efficiently. A day's material is spread to multiple days, but you "learn" (the terminology for the card being due in more than a day) all of them the same day, to repeat it the next day and so on, with delays depending on your recall performance. If you make a mistake, your delay for that card is reduced.
>Anki prevented her from getting through all of the material in the med school decks she got from a classmate.
Ah, that might be a problem. If those decks were poorly made, and they probably were if they aren't something like Anking or copied straight from a source like Pathoma, they might even make one want to quit medical school. Ask me how I know.
> I think the problem is Anki is advertized as digital flashcards when it's actually SRS. When you can't use it as digital flashcards, people without copious time to work around its peculiarities will consider it useless.
I don't understand what you mean. Flashcards are SRS, and Anki tries to emulate flashcards.
> Once I complete the day and still have energy left, I'd move on the the next day and continue until I'm tired.
How can you finish a day without finishing its material? That's what ultimately frustrated my wife. Anki prevented her from getting through all of the material in the med school decks she got from a classmate. She stoped trying it after a few days because her time was better spent studying directly.
> Every classmate I talk to either uses Anki or a local commercial SRS specifically made for my country's med school curriculum/exams.
My experience with a US med school was some students used Anki. Most didn't.