Creating (and weighting) your own FlashCards (Anki)

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Folks, I use Anki to build my own flash cards, however as we know not all facts are weighted equal i.e. you should really remember some and sort of remember others has anyone worked out a way of ‘weighting’ their own flashcards, so that the ‘more important’ questions appear more frequently?
General thoughts on the topic of more heavily weighting some specific facts over others also welcome
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On the Anki software you get to choose whether you thought the flash card was “easy”, “medium” or “hard” or whatever….you get to choose how quickly it shows up again just by clicking one of the three buttons below the card after viewing it.
stuff you want to see more frequently, just choose the relevant button.
 
Just buy blank business cards, create your own flashcards written by hand and make various pools in terms of importance. You don’t have to mix them all together.
 
Thanks @S666, but that does not really address the issue in as a nuanced way as I would like - just because I find something easy now doesn’t necessarily mean I should see it less if it is more test-able i.e. things that are more likely to be on the test should be weighted differently, but maybe I am trying to be too clever….
@krokodilizm Anki is free, can be run on both a laptop an your phone and can hold a (theoretically) unlimited number of cards. (also to @S666’s point it automatically ranks the cards as you learn them depending on how well you know the answers…). I cannot imagine carrying around hundreds of cards (I think I created 600+ cards). I highly recommend you should try it…
 
I made 120 cards for L2, which was very formula heavy. L3 will have fewer formulae so I can’t imagine 600 flashcards. I might as well just flip through the curriculum… :)
 
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