🎉 New essay: andymatuschak.org/prompts
This essay catalogues techniques and mental models for writing good spaced repetition prompts—not just to remember stuff but as a method for creating understanding.
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I've been working with authors to extend the mnemonic medium beyond Quantum Country, and prompt-writing has been a consistent challenge—even for experienced authors. So I wrote this guide to distill what I've learned through my own practice and my work with .
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It's a mnemonic essay, exemplifying its own advice by weaving prompts about the content into the text.
But it's very different from Quantum Country. These are fuzzy heuristics, not laws of nature. How does the medium support reading non-technical material? This is an experiment.
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This is also the first large use of , the platform I've been developing to explore questions around the mnemonic medium, timeful texts, programmable attention, etc.
Interested in writing something with mechanics along these lines? DM me!
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I developed the material in this essay through many workshops with authors and my patrons (patreon.com/quantumcountry). My hearty thanks to the participants!
Thanks also to , , , , and for helpful discussion and comments.🙇♂️
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We talk regularly! Many notes reflecting on that system’s design here:
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