It's striking how rapidly I can generate a large number of spaced repetition prompts using clozes when writing prose notes like notes.andymatuschak.org/The_cognitive_.
I notice that I have to write carefully (eg to avoid "giving away" deletions), and the prompts are lower-quality. But fast!
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Related: a nice shorthand for easily writing "two-sided" prompts in natural language:
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More notes on these "cloze sentences", trying to do double duty as both prompts and (meager) prose.
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The Q/A at the bottom, do those get made into cards? This might be what was missing for me from Orbit, an easy compiler that grabs pairs of Q/A and spits back prompts
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Yes, those and the cloze deletion paragraphs. I haven't wrapped it up for production yet, but see packages/note-sync if you'd like to play.
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I've adopted your simplified cloze syntax for my SRS system (currently Roam -> json -> Anki) and they have worked well! I've extended slightly to introduce grouping and hints. eg: {number:phrase:hint}, number and hint are both optional.
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Right—I'd like to add something like that too. 👍
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Not quite. I find that I usually need to substantially compress and rewrite passages to allow each deletion to work clearly on its own.
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