Cloze deletions hide a small part of the text, and make you remember it given the rest of the content. They are fast to make and fast to review.
The vast, vast majority of my new cards are cloze now, and they weren’t when I first wrote this post. I think that was a mistake.
In the post, I used my representation theory cards as examples.
What a bad choice. Those cards were too long. I ended up forgetting them (although not really many other cards from that point in time). Out of all the examples I could have chosen, why those?!
The problem was that the cards were too long. I made myself remember too much on each pass.
I now read using MarginNote on iPad with a nice cloze deletion → Anki export pipeline.
I’ve edited the post to incorporate a bit of wisdom I’ve gained over the last year.
Use cloze deletions for Anki cards.
Cloze deletions hide a small part of the text, and make you remember it given the rest of the content. They are fast to make and fast to review.
The vast, vast majority of my new cards are cloze now, and they weren’t when I first wrote this post. I think that was a mistake.
In the post, I used my representation theory cards as examples.
What a bad choice. Those cards were too long. I ended up forgetting them (although not really many other cards from that point in time). Out of all the examples I could have chosen, why those?!
The problem was that the cards were too long. I made myself remember too much on each pass.
I now read using MarginNote on iPad with a nice cloze deletion → Anki export pipeline.