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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Do you find cloze prompts effective for memory? I find that they provide too much context and make answering too easy compared to no cloZe
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Mixed, and often no. A bunch of notes on this: notes.andymatuschak.org/zX7yi8v7qy3n1R.
A recent idea I'm excited about: