The art of doing flashcards

[gianluccacolangelo]

The principles of flashcards making, for me, are:

• They should be atomic, that means, if you have more than two sentences for an answer, you probably should split it out into other flashcards.
• They shouldn't "hardcode" knowledge, they have to aim to grasp the fundamentals of the topic, so you can think from first principles.
• When you are studying a particular concept, mechanism, or topic, there should be cards that approach the topic from different perspectives, for example, you may study the prove of a theorem with cloze overlapper, but you may have another flashcard with a concrete application of that theorem.

Those, I think are the properties that flashcards should have, and may be prompted to the LLM.

[gianluccacolangelo]

I implemented these guidelines as a prompt in the module flashcard_generator.py

Time will say if this is enough or we will need another workaround.