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How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt?

I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in.

I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition.

I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition.

I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt"

I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki.

What the hell is a prompt? Is it the question on the flashcard? Does Anki show you pop-ups periodically? There's no onboarding ramp for someone who doesn't know what spaced repetition is to read this article about 'prompts'

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

Are you new to spaced repetition or Anki? I would recommend reading http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html.

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

Are you new to spaced repetition or Anki? I would recommend reading http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html .

your link doesnt have the word prompt anywhere, so I'm not sure it addresses OPs question.

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

From the context, it's probably questions.

Creating and generating good questions and answers is a skill. Too vague, you don't know if your answer is incorrect or not. If your answer require too much, you're never going to get the answer right, and so forth.

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

The article has example prompts on its own content, served with the author's platform Orbit, I found these to be a useful (though meta) illustration of what he means by prompts.

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

Prompts is a piece of jargon, unfortunately confusing but crucial to anyone trying to memorize anything using an SRS. A prompt could take the form “What is a X” or be a blank “the dog ____ over the log” or just be a foreign word like 中国. So in some ways its a more general concept than a “question” but calling it the front side of a flashcard is probably clearer.

Re: How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

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What the hell is a prompt? I read a couple pages of the friendly article, waiting and waiting for the missing vocab word to be filled in. I reluctantly opened the link that was an introduction to spaced repetition. I opened the Wikipedia article for spaced repetition. I searched on DuckDuckGo for "Anki prompt" and "Anki what is a prompt" I opened the Wikipedia article for Anki. What the hell is a prompt? Is it the qu…

I went to read the article expecting it to be about making command line prompts that would help users remember them by acting as spaced repetition lessons.

I was very wrong.

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