A possible solution might be to have third option for the prompts where you get to read them (and the relevant text-passage!) every few days until the wording + abstractions have sunken in / synchronized with your own inner world.
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You will! If you set up an account, you’ll get an email periodically that takes you to the Orbit web site, where it will re-prompt you, particularly with the ones you had trouble with.
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Sure, that is the "normal" SRS-part. But it probably does not work for prompts that you cant get right at all / refuse to put in the effort to get right? I need to look into it.
I feel like I want the agency to refuse to undertand right now (which I take for granted with text).
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I'm super grateful for this very thoughtful feedback, Lucca. Writing lots of notes about this!
Smooth-brain wondering: to what extent do you think it would it help if the prompts in question were shoved to later in the article after you'd had time to absorb their use a bit more?
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Love to help, I want to see Orbit succeed!
Moving them to a later point could help in some cases, but I dont think it solves the general problem of complex ideas sometimes just taking a lot of time to sink in.
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Maybe the area of inquiry can be described as: How do SRS-essays deal with necessary re-reading? Prompts as possible stopping-points.
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E.g. under "Using Anki to thoroughly read a research paper in an unfamiliar field" the description for "getting" the paper includes a lot of back and forth, re-reading, coming back (augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html).
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Even if the prompts have already been created I dont see why this approach wouldnt still be necessary for complex topics.
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A possible solution would to have conditional or hierarchical prompts that only appear once a certain repetition level has been reached. See:
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Its obvious that learning is sequence-dependant.
As they say "you cant run before you walk".
Still, there is now easy way to sequence flashcards.
This is a missing primitive.
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Or another framing: the open question is the scheduling when to show prompts the first time vs the general scheduling of prompts.
I feel like this is a time-axis that is mostly unexplored.
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Yes, agreed! The "application prompts" we added to Quantum Country start to get at this in a very shallow way. Interesting to dig in further here…