Just to promote this a bit more.
This deck features, for each major section eg. Nidana, Parājika, etc., a full recitation of that section. Both sides so it shows you the Pāli, then flip it’s english, next time, it shows the English; you should recite the Pāli from memory to pass that card. That’s 2 repetitions already.
Then individual rules have their own cards, also both sides, so that’s 4 repetitions in total per rule.
Then for longer rules, it’s split into many different cards, so add them up, it’s 6 repetitions for longer rules.
Then if you use the recommended timesteps, 1m 5m 5h 12h, and you start from hard, then go good, good, good until it graduates from learning, you get 5 exposure per card. I think sometimes it can be too much, so can even start from good just to get it off faster.
5 or 4 exposures per card, then 4 or 6 repetitions, you get 16-30 repetitions per rule, just by doing the Anki deck alone as it’s intended. Then take into account that you’re not just reciting with the card, but you see the pali side first card, chant along, then test yourself, or see the English side first , test yourself by chanting, then chant along when the answer comes up, then you easily double the figure to 32-60 repetitions. Given that on average the timing to recite is 1 hour, you would be doing minimum 32-60 hours, not including breaks, pauses, time to digest and further repetitions for the first time to get it in memory. Wait, that’s just to get the cards to graduate from learning phase, you get to revisit them as you click good or easy, or even hard, their time interval increases again and again, unless you press again for when you forgotten the content then it decreases. So you get a lot less repetition if you’re good in memorization, or more if you’re bad at it. But minimum is as above, to graduate the cards, and minimum is a lot already.
This is not counting the vocab deck recommended in the description of that page. So if you do the vocab and read along those sentences, you easily add in a lot more repetitions from the vocab deck before you do the memorization deck.
Thus anki is a very useful tool to force those repetitions in, and it gets smooth and stuck in the mind. This is easier for those who are not motivated to memorize otherwise, but can be motivated to do anki’s work for that day, especially considering that one can have lots of gamification add ons to motivate oneself to do anki.
