u/sightwhale

Med school is already impossible enough. Why are we spending more time making cards than actually learning?

I just tallied up my hours this week:

• 12 hours typing biochem and anatomy notes into Anki

• 4 hours actually reviewing the cards

• 0 hours of sleep last night because I was formatting cloze deletions

I've tried everything to fix this:

• Premade decks? Missing 30% of my professor's random lecture points

• ChatGPT cards? Half the answers are straight up wrong, no way to verify

• Shortcuts? Still takes 2 hours to format a single lecture's cards

I know I'm not the only one here. I see so many of us burning out not from the material, but from the endless card making.

Who else has pulled an all-nighter just to make Anki cards? Drop your weekly card making hours below. I need to know I'm not alone in this.

Hey everyone,

I'm a first year med student, been using Anki every day for 2 years now. Don't get me wrong—Anki changed my life. I would have failed my pre-med exams without it.

But I just did the math this weekend, and it blew my mind: I spend 2-3 hours a day making cards, and only 1 hour reviewing them. That's 10+ hours a week I'm spending typing out notes instead of actually learning.

I've tried every trick to speed this up:

• Importing premade decks (but they're always missing my lecture's specific points)

• Using ChatGPT to make cards (half the answers are wrong, no sources)

• Cloze deletion shortcuts (still takes forever to format)

I know I'm not the only one here. I see posts every week about people burning out from making cards. Why is this still such a huge pain point?

I got so frustrated that I spent the last 2 months building a little tool for myself. It takes my lecture notes and makes proper Q&A cards in 5 seconds, with sources for every answer so I know they're not wrong. It exports directly to Anki too, so I don't have to reformat anything.

It cut my card making time to 10 minutes a day. I'm not here to shill it—just curious if anyone else has this same problem.

How much time do you all spend making cards vs reviewing? Has anyone found a better solution that actually works?

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