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I ran into a question a while ago that I couldn't find a good answer to, and while it's not exactly on topic this seems like a good place to ask it.

I was working in a detail rich context, where there were a lot of items, about which there were a lot of facts that mostly didn't change but only mostly. Getting a snapshot of these details into approximately everyone's head seemed like a job for spaced repetition, and I considered making a shared Anki deck for the company.

What wasn't clear was how to handle those updates. Just changing the deck in place feels wrong, for those who have been using it - they're remembering right, the cards have changed.

Deprecating cards that are no longer accurate but which don't have replacement information was a related question. It might be worth informing people who have been studying that card that it's wrong now, but there's no reason to surface the deprecation to a person who has never seen the card.

Is there an obvious way to use standard SRS features for this? A less obvious way? A system that provides less standard features? Is this an opportunity for a useful feature for a new or existing system? Or is this actually not an issue for some reason I've missed?

parent dllthomas 1 year ago

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