do you need to write your own spaced repetition prompts?

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There has been pushback on that idea from some serious practitioners, though. In link not tracked, link not tracked feels that the process of creating the cards is often rote, especially for his primary use, which is link not tracked for his next interview.

In link not tracked I detail Andy Matuschak and link not tracked's evolving thoughts on the topic, where they seem to think that the process of generating high quality prompts is so hard to do well, that a person could benefit from having an expert create the cards for them.

Most people write sub-optimal prompts. You see them everywhere in the wild. Writing effective prompts is really hard. See link not tracked for the myriad considerations. Even just keeping link not tracked in mind while creating prompts is challenging.

I suspect that an author who is well-versed in link not tracked and has deliberately practiced getting good at prompt generation would be able to make prompts that would help individuals as well (or perhaps even better) than their own prompts would.

Also, that author's efforts will be amortized across all the people who benefit from the prompts. Seems like a good trade!

The one thing to consider, however, is that link not tracked. Specifically, it's a problem if you either already know the material or you don't care about specific prompts. The problem is simple to overcome if you can maintain the deck of prompts. The problem is harder to address for sites that integrate spaced repetition prompts directly into them, like blog post - quantum country, which presume to know exactly which prompts you need to answer, when, and don't give the user much control over the experience.

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