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This is the opposite of what the commenter is suggesting.

by tyrust 3y ago

computerphage 3y ago
I'm not sure it is. Not if chatgpt is operating off of the notes you already took yourself
redcobra762 3y ago
I’m offering my experience, while agreeing with the larger point that you need to customize your cards to your situation.
CuriouslyC 3y ago
One of the biggest roadblocks to using anki or cards in general is coming up with good cards. Automating that part lets you use anki a lot more, which is a win. If you want to connect with the question you can still manually transcribe the card.
- _Algernon_ 3y ago
  The biggest failure mode is adding to many notes at once, which leads to non obvious increased future workload. Automating card creation sounds like would worsen this issue unless extreme care is taken.
- samus 3y ago
  Using Anki is not a goal in itself. It's just a tool to help you cram facts into your brain. Once you have done that, you can and should build associations and knowledge on top of them. Reviews ensure that less-often used facts are not forgotten. Anki is fine for that. But creating Anki cards is effectively a form of review as well. If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces, which is required to come up with good cards.
  - redcobra762 3y ago
    > If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces Why wouldn't you get this? You just don't have to do it in order to make Anki cards. > which is required to come up with good cards Yes, and ChatGPT does this for you. This isn't theoretical. I've used this to get As in multiple classes in college. This works.
    - samus 3y ago
      Of course you don't have to create your own cards, but they would work better if you did. You can use ChatGPT to automate onerous tasks, but have to compensate for it by engaging with the material in other ways. I doubt that grinding decks is enough. Depends on the activity and the goal I guess. Acing exams, sure, without doubt.
      - redcobra762 3y ago
        A concept applies here where you really don't want to spend unbound time studying. It's a great way to burn out. "A" students, when interviewed, frequently reference doing "enough" and then stopping. Optimizing your study time by taking the "boring" work, e.g. building flashcards of material you organized yourself, cuts down on time spent not doing work that's maximally effective (memorizing flashcards). If a person had infinite time, making flashcards would be just one more thing on an unbound list of things they could do to learn the material better. But people don't have infinite time, and considering you're already "familiar" with the material since you wrote and organized it, building flashcards is something you can't really afford to spend time on. When I went back to school to get my undergrad, I focused on optimizing my time, because procrastination was a huge problem for me the first time around. Being efficient and not spending a single second longer than I have to in order to get an "A" is important to me, and using ChatGPT to help me with that has been wildly successful so far.
    - CuriouslyC 3y ago
      I would rather get cards that are really well designed ___as cards__ (which chat gpt will do better than me given the time I want to spend) even if there is some loss of "value" from not breaking the material into cards myself, because I will make it up on the back end by studying the cards more, and having cards that are more correctly designed for optimal study. Who cares if I did the work of breaking the material into cards myself if it results in shitty cards that aren't good study aids and thus you never use.
heyoni 3y ago
If you’re modifying the cards to fit your needs and ChatGPT is basing them off of your personal notes then I’m not sure you understood the commenters suggestion you’re referring to.

This is the opposite of what the commenter is suggesting.

by tyrust 3y ago

This is the opposite of what the commenter is suggesting.

computerphage 3y ago

I'm not sure it is. Not if chatgpt is operating off of the notes you already took yourself

redcobra762 3y ago

I’m offering my experience, while agreeing with the larger point that you need to customize your cards to your situation.

CuriouslyC 3y ago

One of the biggest roadblocks to using anki or cards in general is coming up with good cards. Automating that part lets you use anki a lot more, which is a win. If you want to connect with the question you can still manually transcribe the card.

_Algernon_ 3y ago
The biggest failure mode is adding to many notes at once, which leads to non obvious increased future workload. Automating card creation sounds like would worsen this issue unless extreme care is taken.
samus 3y ago
Using Anki is not a goal in itself. It's just a tool to help you cram facts into your brain. Once you have done that, you can and should build associations and knowledge on top of them. Reviews ensure that less-often used facts are not forgotten. Anki is fine for that. But creating Anki cards is effectively a form of review as well. If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces, which is required to come up with good cards.
- redcobra762 3y ago
  > If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces Why wouldn't you get this? You just don't have to do it in order to make Anki cards. > which is required to come up with good cards Yes, and ChatGPT does this for you. This isn't theoretical. I've used this to get As in multiple classes in college. This works.
  - samus 3y ago
    Of course you don't have to create your own cards, but they would work better if you did. You can use ChatGPT to automate onerous tasks, but have to compensate for it by engaging with the material in other ways. I doubt that grinding decks is enough. Depends on the activity and the goal I guess. Acing exams, sure, without doubt.
    - redcobra762 3y ago
      A concept applies here where you really don't want to spend unbound time studying. It's a great way to burn out. "A" students, when interviewed, frequently reference doing "enough" and then stopping. Optimizing your study time by taking the "boring" work, e.g. building flashcards of material you organized yourself, cuts down on time spent not doing work that's maximally effective (memorizing flashcards). If a person had infinite time, making flashcards would be just one more thing on an unbound list of things they could do to learn the material better. But people don't have infinite time, and considering you're already "familiar" with the material since you wrote and organized it, building flashcards is something you can't really afford to spend time on. When I went back to school to get my undergrad, I focused on optimizing my time, because procrastination was a huge problem for me the first time around. Being efficient and not spending a single second longer than I have to in order to get an "A" is important to me, and using ChatGPT to help me with that has been wildly successful so far.
  - CuriouslyC 3y ago
    I would rather get cards that are really well designed ___as cards__ (which chat gpt will do better than me given the time I want to spend) even if there is some loss of "value" from not breaking the material into cards myself, because I will make it up on the back end by studying the cards more, and having cards that are more correctly designed for optimal study. Who cares if I did the work of breaking the material into cards myself if it results in shitty cards that aren't good study aids and thus you never use.

heyoni 3y ago

If you’re modifying the cards to fit your needs and ChatGPT is basing them off of your personal notes then I’m not sure you understood the commenters suggestion you’re referring to.