<h1 id="getting-started-with-anki---the-bare-minimum">Getting started with Anki - the bare minimum<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#getting-started-with-anki---the-bare-minimum"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Usually, people would like the know just the least needed to get by using a technology. And really, that's an efficient learning strategy.</li>
<li>Information like this is mostly contained in <em>Getting Started</em> section of the manual of these technologies. But sometimes they're still too much and too introductory. See <a href="https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html">Anki Manual</a>.</li>
<li>Here, I give brief (but detailed enough) instructions on the preferences I currently use for my Anki.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="how-to-create-a-deck">How to create a deck<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#how-to-create-a-deck"></a></h3>
<h3 id="how-to-create-a-superdeck">How to create a superdeck<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#how-to-create-a-superdeck"></a></h3>
<h3 id="what-settingsoptions-should-you-set-the-superdeck-and-subdecks">What settings/options should you set the Superdeck and Subdecks?<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#what-settingsoptions-should-you-set-the-superdeck-and-subdecks"></a></h3>
<h3 id="how-to-create-a-note">How to create a note?<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#how-to-create-a-note"></a></h3>
<h3 id="how-can-you-make-your-notes-pretty">How can you make your notes pretty?<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#how-can-you-make-your-notes-pretty"></a></h3>
<h3 id="how-should-you-tag-your-notes">How should you tag your notes?<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#how-should-you-tag-your-notes"></a></h3>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/1zmomff28z01qqxek8kouyl">documenting project mnemosyne</a></li>
</ul>

What settings/options should you set the Superdeck and Subdecks?

Getting started with Anki - the bare minimum

Dendron


You've stumbled on [Caleb's](https://bycaleb.wasegun.com/) public notebook. You can conceive of this as a sketchbook too—i.e., rough, incomplete, and sometimes sparse. Hence, you might not get the full-gist of any one random page in the notebook. It is meant to help me elaborate/consolidate on my work & thoughts as a software engineer. This is not quite a [digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history), and also unlike [Andy's working notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes).

I built this (experimentally & publicly) with [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/), specifically, to understand if & how "quick, linked, and atomic" note-taking can help realize, remember, & learn (how to make better) design decisions when working on quick (or slow) software engineering projects. Of course, it does help—that makes this is a demonstration of exactly how it helps.

Check out my growing list of [[projects]]!

