Anki is great. I am gigging asking 33,000 cards among all of my decks right now, with about 6000 in active rotation. I built what one person called the highest quality Finnish flashcard deck on the Internet, and it was the project that finally convinced me that software was my calling.
Some very scattershot hacker's notes.
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- Image Occlusion Enhanced is S-tier. If you don't believe me, use it to memorize the names and locations on the map of your 5 closest restaurants.
- If you have what you want to memorize in an HTML table, take a look at running my table2anki (https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/table2anki) or writing your own scraper for it. This isn't useful as often as you would think, but sometimes you see a blob of information already ready to go and just want to dive in.
- Anki + LISS cardio is a similar match made in heaven. The hardest part is figuring out how to get a screen in a comfortable position for you to watch while you review. Anki actually has a "Controller Mode" you can rig up to help a lot with this.
- This is extremely niche, but: Having trouble remembering a step in a math problem? Do the work out on paper. Take a photo. Image Occlude just the step you're blanking on. Review this regularly. Boom - instant, targeted, low effort high reward deliberate practice in mathematics, tuned to what your own brain reports it is having trouble on.