Effective Flashcard Writing: Decomposing half a chapter of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Описание: I read a tiny part of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and create spaced-repetition flashcards in RemNote for it. It takes an hour and a half because I discuss all of my decisions and the tradeoffs involved in detail.

One take, real cards that are going into my knowledge base. This is less an organized teaching session than a way to see how experienced users use these tools and borrow some ideas.

I had to cut a short section in which I watched a video of the invisible gorilla experiment due to copyright (for whatever reason, the creator doesn't mind people embedding it in articles, but doesn't want it used in talks/videos). If you want to watch it yourself when we reach that point, you can find it at    • The Monkey Business Illusion  .

0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:02 Creating a document and adding metadata
0:04:45 Reading the first pages of Thinking, Fast and Slow
0:08:54 Rough notes on characteristics of System 1 and 2
0:12:35 Selecting examples to include in notes
0:17:48 Should you copy verbatim or rephrase?
0:21:13 The Invisible Gorilla
0:23:16 Re-casting notes as flashcards
0:25:07 No long lists after vague questions on flashcards!
0:26:29 Turning characteristics into descriptors and cloze deletions
0:30:20 Using examples in flashcards
0:35:55 Prompts as poetry; wording matters!
0:39:00 Splitting questions to make them clearer
00:46:32 Expressing a difference between System 1 and System 2
00:49:50 Deciding what words to occlude in a cloze deletion
00:55:01 Conceptual vs. lexical processing of clozes
00:58:09 Adding cues to clozes
00:59:28 Asking “Why?” questions
01:01:13 Asking about evocative examples in the original text
01:02:31 Is it worth making flashcards for things that are hard to make flashcards for?
01:03:36 Making flashcards that test the thing we care about
01:06:07 Making vague and unfocused cards on purpose
01:09:22 Process: Reading the book before creating flashcards?
01:10:10 Making flashcards that test the thing we care about, redux
01:14:32 More on evocative examples
01:16:15 Doing the first review and editing cards as needed
01:18:37 A very confusing card!
01:20:53 Trick Question
01:23:21 A vague cloze deletion
01:27:55 Compromising between notes and flashcards: Verbosity
01:28:55 Conclusion