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[DISCUSSION] Community sharing - study material, card templates... #5

Open nikedinikedi opened 4 years ago

nikedinikedi commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#bookmarks-and-link-sharing

a place to organize a lot of material for importing to SM with clear structure like Economics --- Micro --- Macro

Place to compile a bunchload of valuable stuff to import into supermemo, not for just some light reading but actual learning

rajlego commented 4 years ago

Tangentially related but it would also be nice if people could share card templates for certain types of material. I think this issue is a bit related to this as both are ways of finding material to import.

alexis- commented 4 years ago

Tangentially related but it would also be nice if people could share card templates for certain types of material. I think this issue is a bit related to this as both are ways of finding material to import.

I'm really interested in this line of exploration. It's still very vague in my mind, but I am certain there are several ways we can improve the (speed and efficiency) of (formulating and representing) elements.

Another idea I have been slowly baking at the back of my mind is a plugin to make formulating content faster. Maybe some kind of "Q/A" templates for different types of material. There could be a system that analyze the existing text and try to automatically match the content to fit into the templates. Or some kind of mechanism to quickly fill the template.

Update me if you come up with more details about how you conceive this feature.

(this should probably be its own issue)

alexis- commented 4 years ago

Update: more closely related to your idea, I have also been thinking about how to integrate a "card template" system (like Anki's) in SuperMemo. Is that a good idea ? How would it work ?

rajlego commented 4 years ago

Update: more closely related to your idea, I have also been thinking about how to integrate a "card template" system (like Anki's) in SuperMemo. Is that a good idea ? How would it work ?

For normal IR, normal q/a and maybe a picture or two is generally sufficient in my experience. More advanced card templates would be useful mainly for procedural and language cards. E.g. if you're making a keyboard shortcut card, it's way more useful to see where the fingers should be placed as shown under "Keyboard Shortcuts" here. It would thus be useful if you could download a template that would automatically create such images for you. I personally would use something like that but I'm not sure how many other people would. For language cards, I think it would also be nice to have cards well formatted for things like e.g. Kanji or sentence cards.

Aside from that, I think being able to share cards for aesthetics would be nice (Naess shared a cool one he made quite a while ago in the SM server). It might seem very superficial but if I'm using SM 2 hours a day, having a nice topic theme with cool font and background adds up.

rajlego commented 4 years ago

I'm really interested in this line of exploration. It's still very vague in my mind, but I am certain there are several ways we can improve the (speed and efficiency) of (formulating and representing) elements.

Another idea I have been slowly baking at the back of my mind is a plugin to make formulating content faster. Maybe some kind of "Q/A" templates for different types of material. There could be a system that analyze the existing text and try to automatically match the content to fit into the templates. Or some kind of mechanism to quickly fill the template.

I'm gonna have to think about this more. I think the main issue you might encounter is that users would have to be in similar situations to have something like that work which I'm not sure would happen much in IR in general. Beyond what I mentioned in my previous comments, maybe templates could help for things like med school anatomy cards. If I need to make 20 anatomy cards, it'll take me a while to do it by hand. If I spend time making a script to speed it up it'll take way too much time to be worth it. But if I make a procedural template for anatomy cards and share it, the time investment then becomes much more worth it.

I also think there are some related things you could do to help with language learning which I'll write about soon in another issue.