I find that writing spaced-repetition prompts in the way the article describes to have too small of a return on investment: Reviewing them is quick, but it takes a lot of effort to craft good ones from a text.
Good authors take care with their prose and use nuance to get their point across, which is often lost in the translation to a few bullet points. This subtlety is often the meat of the text, and the high-level points are the bones that hold it all together: essential, but not where the real value is.
My Anki deck is mostly cloze deletions automatically extracted from ebooks, where I've imported the entire text ~20 lines at a time. I've deliberately set up the review schedule so that it's hard for me to memorize particular phrases: 1 week for the first review and 4 weeks for the second, with a 1 day delay for misses. This forces me to remember what role the passage plays in the wider narrative (argument for non-fiction) to successfully predict the blanked-out word.
With this setup, I'm noticing new connections between different sections of the same book, and between different books, every time a card comes up for review: My understanding of the world has changed since I last saw it, and so I notice different subtleties than I did the first time around.
Instead of viewing them as a chore, I'm now actually excited to do my Anki reviews every morning-- where they used to make me mentally exhausted, they're now a warm-up that gets my brain started for the day.
Good authors take care with their prose and use nuance to get their point across, which is often lost in the translation to a few bullet points. This subtlety is often the meat of the text, and the high-level points are the bones that hold it all together: essential, but not where the real value is.
My Anki deck is mostly cloze deletions automatically extracted from ebooks, where I've imported the entire text ~20 lines at a time. I've deliberately set up the review schedule so that it's hard for me to memorize particular phrases: 1 week for the first review and 4 weeks for the second, with a 1 day delay for misses. This forces me to remember what role the passage plays in the wider narrative (argument for non-fiction) to successfully predict the blanked-out word.
With this setup, I'm noticing new connections between different sections of the same book, and between different books, every time a card comes up for review: My understanding of the world has changed since I last saw it, and so I notice different subtleties than I did the first time around.
Instead of viewing them as a chore, I'm now actually excited to do my Anki reviews every morning-- where they used to make me mentally exhausted, they're now a warm-up that gets my brain started for the day.