On a different note, ChatGPT has been making me feel stupid because I fail to come up with many use cases, while it seems like tons of technically unskilled people come up with all kinds of uses...
"please generate a series of short questions and answers that conform to a flashcard format, easy for studying, from these notes"
The responses were too verbose, so I asked:
"Please shorten the answers to short, easily memorizable lines"
That returned pretty good flashcards, so from there I asked it to reformat in a way Anki could consume:
"these are great, please convert these into a code block, where the question and the answer is on the same line, separated by a semicolon and not numbered"
But that put all of the flashcards on the same line, so I added:
"sorry I wasn't clear, each question should be on its own line"
That gave me what I was looking for. The next step is to paste it into Anki, fiddle with the recall and cards-per-day settings, and then get to training!
But creating Anki cards is effectively a form of review as well. If you automate that, then you miss out on going through your own notes, engaging with the subject, and subdividing it into self-contained pieces, which is required to come up with good cards.
That said, I still make all my cards myself and some cards are trivial. For the trivial cards, review time can outweigh creation time. But trivial cards take seconds.
Crafting effective prompts is important to getting the value out of an SRS. That sometimes is the bull of the "work". Not the review.
