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TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM

Speaking as someone with 12k+ cards, can I suggest the 20 rules are not the full answer? They are good for Wozniak’s original goals (word pairs, remembering stats and isolated facts). Real world knowledge, unlike quizzing, is not so atomic.

@TfTHacker

Absolutely! would love to hear more. what advice can you share?

Here are some problems that I wish clever ppl like you and

@andy_matuschak

would think about. With SRS you never know what you know. I might have 20 cards on wasps, but without retrieval cue they are not accessible. I can answer precise question, but not “tell me about wasps”.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

I'm sympathetic to this concern. I've felt this problem, too—I don't yet think I understand it well. Often if I write well-connected prompts about topics of active interest, this problem ends up "solving itself." Problems seem to arise most when "out of context."

Yes, I find that after 6 months cards are inevitably out of context, unless I reinvest them with context using daisy-chaining or meta-cards, or meta-routines, where apart from answering I also run a keyword search in Anki to see other instances. Or ask “what does this mean?”

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Incidentally here’s a daisy chained set of cards I made from a tv documentary on China.

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Interesting. I've never tried this kind of daisy chaining. What effect does it have for you>?

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It helps me create meaning when I’m writing them, plus gives me easily visible context when I need. I write all cards this way now. I also have cards which hide some questions and I have to fill in missing qn/ans

TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM

So, this is what this card looks like. I always try to write 11 card pairs. The question I make bold.

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curious if either of you have given

@rem_note

a try? Looking for a hosted SRS, with a good API. Anki does this, but you have to a lot of the config, hosting, etc yourself. Basically would not use remnote for notes, but for its SRS features.