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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…
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.
Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique.
I wish more people would define the uncommon abbreviations and terms they use for the convenience of their readers.
I thought its about improving terminal prompts
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…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
After checking the Wikipedia disambiguation page, I'm assuming that SRS means Spaced Repetition Software here? Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique. I wish more people would define the uncommon abbreviations and terms they use for the convenience of their readers.
Ironically the solution already exists but no one uses it because of the editorial overhead: hyperlinking text to their definitions. Also, there are many ‘types’ of linking and they all look the same (blue underlined text by default). I’d love a more subtle “context” link to be natively supported. Maybe one day the semantic web will save us all...
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.
Good authors take care with their prose and use nuance to get their point across, which is often lost in the translation to a few bullet points. This subtlety is often the meat of the text, and the high-level points are the bones that hold it all together: essential, but not where the real value is.
My Anki deck is mostly cloze deletions automatically extracted from ebooks, where I've imported the entire text ~20 lines at a time. I've deliberately set up the review schedule so that it's hard for me to memorize particular phrases: 1 week for the first review and 4 weeks for the second, with a 1 day delay for misses. This forces me to remember what role the passage plays in the wider narrative (argument for non-fiction) to successfully predict the blanked-out word.
With this setup, I'm noticing new connections between different sections of the same book, and between different books, every time a card comes up for review: My understanding of the world has changed since I last saw it, and so I notice different subtleties than I did the first time around.
Instead of viewing them as a chore, I'm now actually excited to do my Anki reviews every morning-- where they used to make me mentally exhausted, they're now a warm-up that gets my brain started for the day.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
After checking the Wikipedia disambiguation page, I'm assuming that SRS means Spaced Repetition Software here? Clicking through to the next article, "spaced repetition" itself seems to be a flash card based learning technique. I wish more people would define the uncommon abbreviations and terms they use for the convenience of their readers.
SRS simply takes advantage of how spaced repetition works.
I thought its about improving terminal prompts