Enhancing items with explanations from artificial intelligence

Video

When in doubts about cloze deletions, we can quickly consult AI and insert a short burst of incremental reading to consolidate specific knowledge. Formulating items is secondary. Redundance is ok. Final drill comes handy for highly volatile material, or for material of high priority

Video: Boosting cloze review with notes from artificial intelligence (incremental reading on Alzheimer's)

Explanatory video: Paste & Adapt Text from ChatGPT in Markdown

This text and video are used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987. For other videos see: SuperMemo Video

Key skills

• prompting AI to enhance a cloze
• pasting AI texts to SuperMemo
• generating cloze deletions
• Tools : Save drill in the browser to create a final drill queue
• final drill

Additional skills

• randomizing the browser (Ctrl+Shift+F11)
• removing topics from the browser (Child : Items)
• formatting markdown (1:29)

Questions

Skipping references

• Q: Why don't you indicate source of information in references when generating many cloze deletions.
• A: The source is Bing/Copilot, which is indicated by the template. A different color would be used for ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. Sources are often listed by AI but adding them to each note is burdensome. Naturally, you can read and add references each time you are hesitant about the reliability of information, or if you want to read and explore further

Wordy clozes

• Q: Why are you creating items from such a long text here?
• A: This is all about the speed of a digression. One item generated several. With a bit of training, you can ignore 95% of the text and still answer effortlessly. You can improve the wording incrementally if you get a chance (intervals are likely to be very long very fast due to redundancy). Shortening text would require a significant investment of time

Not incremental

• Q: Why do you not work incrementally?
• A: Incremental reading does not require incremental approach in all cases. If you love an article, you can produce a hundred extracts in an hour. If you feel you need a good comprehension of a paragraph, you can generate several clozes in one go. Here you even go a step further and "consolidate" it with final drill (which is rare). Strictly speaking, final drill is also a (harmless) violation of spaced repetition.