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I made a SRS deck for PHP stuff when I was going to take the certification. What I found was that studying the deck didn't help me at all. What did help was m
by wccrawford 6y ago
I made a SRS deck for PHP stuff when I was going to take the certification.
What I found was that studying the deck didn't help me at all. What did help was making the deck.
IMO, if something makes the deck for you, it's going to drastically reduce the usefulness of the deck. Making the deck means a lot, and possibly much more than studying the deck could do for you.
It does help that this is making it from something you're trying to read... But I think removing that effort is actually harmful to the experience.
- cratermoon 6y agoAs I understand it, the Orbit platform presents the cards to you within the context of the text you are studying, where you'd probably want to create a card yourself if you were making them. For example you just read a section of a text and decide you should make a card for it. In Orbit the text would provide the card pre-made. I could also imagine extending this to make it possible for the reader to create personalize review prompts, on the fly, and build up a personal card deck for the text.
- wccrawford 6y agoThat was my assumption, too. But it's taken the work out of it. You no longer need to think about the card you're making. You probably just click a few times and poof, there's a card. There's no memorizing it long enough to put it somewhere else. There's no typing (or hand-writing). You don't have to re-read it more than about once, unlike hand-making SRS cards where you'd read it at least a few times.
- cratermoon 6y agoGiven that Andy says Orbit is currently a research project, perhaps the efficacy of SRS with pre-made cards v personally-written cards is something that could be studied more closely.