Study methods
Study methodsHow to make flashcards from a PDF without keeping the bad ones
Turning a PDF into cards is easy. Selecting a small set that stays faithful to the document is the part worth doing carefully.
11 Sept 20267 min read
Study methodsAI flashcards: why most of them are worse than none, and the one check that tells you
Paste a PDF, get fifty cards. Three things go wrong with that, and one of them means you memorise something the author never said. The three failure modes, the single check that catches them, and how to prompt for cards you can trust.
11 Sept 20269 min read
Study methodsActive recall: what it is, why it works, and how to do it without cheating
Rereading feels like learning and mostly is not. Active recall is the alternative the evidence keeps pointing at: what it is, why the effort is the point, and the ways people quietly do it wrong.
11 Sept 202611 min read
Study methodsHow to remember everything you read
Most of what you read is gone within a week, and it is not because your memory is bad. A four-step method that holds, the step nearly everyone skips, and which parts are worth handing to software.
11 Sept 202612 min read