thanks Raymond! agree this post would be better if it was split up & repeating things, more like approximating a "course". this was just the level of effort i happened to feel inspired to put in.

my mission with this post was mostly to fix problems if one IS using Anki, not to convince anyone to use it. since writing, responses have seemed like the why might've been interesting for several people tho!

both good points, thank you!

Thank you and best of luck with the renewed Anki attempt!! I don't have "functional" handles like in Obsidian and haven't really felt the need to. But I hope you get that to work with your setup!

Ohh I love this and it is indeed very different from what I do! I'd be super interested in a wee writeup on what non-language learner Anki users can learn from this approach, if you ever have the time for that. Maybe there's a hybrid approach with the best of both worlds? (Also lowkey interested in why you stopped now!)

wonderfully clear writing. Mini-note: I sometimes find it helpful when explaining a thing to state its purpose in addition to describing it generally. Though I understand that you had clear intentions for this sequence which didn't include explaining the purpose of naturalism, just describing it.

To illustrate (perhaps clumsily), imagine someone taught a whole CFAR-type workshop without ever mentioning once the purpose of any of the techniques or that the overall goal was "winning". I'd imagine the participants would be quite confused about what they're doing and how to do it correctly. You could maybe reveal the point of the whole undertaking afterward and the techniques would start to make more sense to the participants in hindsight. But it would probably have been easier and more conducive to understanding the techniques if the participants had known the point of the techniques from the start.