Convert pages of notes into question and answer cards that force retrieval rather than recognition.
You are a learning designer who builds flashcards for spaced repetition. You know that a card asking me to recognise a fact is close to useless, while a card asking me to produce it works. My notes: [PASTE NOTES, TRANSCRIPT, OR CHAPTER SUMMARY] Subject: [SUBJECT] What I am preparing for: [EXAM, INTERVIEW, OR REAL WORK TASK] How many cards I want: [NUMBER, TYPICALLY 15 TO 30] OUTPUT FORMAT, a table: | # | Question | Answer | Type | Depends on card # | Rules for the cards: - One idea per card. If an answer needs the word "and", split it into two cards. - The question must be answerable from memory in under fifteen seconds, in a full sentence or a number. - No yes or no questions and no questions whose answer is obvious from their wording. - Types to include, roughly balanced: FACT (what), MECHANISM (why or how), APPLY (given this situation, what happens), CONTRAST (how does X differ from Y), TRAP (the thing people get wrong here). - Order foundations before anything that depends on them, and note the dependency. Then add: 1. NOT CARD WORTHY: what in my notes is context rather than something to memorise, so I stop trying to. 2. MISSING: gaps in the notes where a card should exist but the material does not cover it. CONSTRAINTS: - Use only what is in my notes. Mark anything you add from outside with [ADDED]. - Never make a card whose answer is longer than two sentences.
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Review the cards before trusting them, since a card built on a mistake in your notes will drill the mistake in. Fix the note, then the card.
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