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There is a proven system to learn faster and remember more: Spaced Repetition.

Studies report 2-3x increase in retention.

Here is how you can add it to your notes with a simple plugin:
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Spaced Repetition (SR) asks you to recall something repeatedly.

Write what you learn on a card and put it in the repeat-daily-box (1).

If you remember well, move it right to the repeat-weekly-box (2), then monthly (3).

If not, move it back left.

(intervals may vary)
Many tools can do this. @ankiapp is very popular for example.

But it's SEPARATE from your notes.

Instead install the "Spaced Repetion" plugin to @obsdmd.

Your flashcards will be one with your notes.
If you forget something it is easy to read up on it!
@ankiapp @obsdmd To add new flashcards you need to:

1. Add a tag #flashcards to the note with the flashcards.

2. Add questions and answers in the format
QUESTION : ANSWER

Embed them into the note they belong to.

Here is a note on capitols. Naturally the respective flashcards go here.
@ankiapp @obsdmd Start the spaced repetition by pressing CMD/CTRL + P (to launch the command palette)

Into the popup type in "flashcard" and select one of the Review options: In this note only or in all notes.
@ankiapp @obsdmd A popup will ask you the questions.

Answer and then decide how hard it was.

Depending on that you will review the question sooner or later.

If an answer is easy multiple times, the review intervals get longer.

This way you don't waste time on what you already learned.
@ankiapp @obsdmd It is very easy to create multple decks of flashcards.

Use different hastags in the note. e.g.:

#flashcards/geography
#flashcards/ecology

These could be different courses, topics or projects!
@ankiapp @obsdmd For longer flashcards use the multiline syntax.

Separate the question and answer paragraph with a line containing only a "?".
@ankiapp @obsdmd Instead of flashcards you can review whole notes.

Add #review to a note.
Open the right sidebar.
The review tab contains notes you need to review.

Right click to select how "easy" it was or in other words how soon you want to revisit this note/idea/concept.
@ankiapp @obsdmd Summary

► Install Spaced Repetion plugin
► Add #flashcards/deckname to notes containing flashcards
► One-line flashcards syntax is Q : A
► For multi-line use Q ? A in 3 separate lines
► Review entire notes by adding #review

Notes and Flashcards are in one system: Powerful!
@ankiapp @obsdmd Btw we can use ChatGPT inside our note taking app to generate those Flashcards!

In one of my next tweets I will explain how. So make sure to follow.

Check out my link in bio for other resources on note taking with Obsidian.

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Get AI-powered writing corrections based on your research domain.

Here's a walk-through of its features (with videos):
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Joining @thetrinkaai is free.

Go ahead and make an account on trinka(dot)ai

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Using your research notes with ChatGPT is a huge time saver.

But if you don't do it right, you run into AI's problems.

Here is what these are and how to overcome them:
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It generates PLAUSIBLE text given training texts.

Training often involves filling in blanks in sentences (MASKING).

Limitation #1: AI doesn't differentiate fact from fiction.

That means: It is great with text, but terrible at facts.
To overcome that, provide "CONTEXT". i.e. additional text for the AI to work on.

Limitation #2: Context length.

paid (GPT-4): ~6 or 24k words (larger 2x price)
free (GPT-3.5): ~1.5k words

A single paper can be 2k-10k words.

That means: To work well, we must use shorter texts.
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No time to read a research paper in depth?

This AI app will save you time and effort:
(+ 3 innovative AI prompts to try out)

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- Answer questions
- Explain math or complex text
- Brainstorm research questions
- Come up with tags
- Search for specific parts

Let's see a few examples and then integrate it into @obsdmd (where my research notes live).
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Click on "My Library".

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This is how I use AI (ChatGPT) to improve my academic research.

"AI Prompt Templates" supercharge any task from PDF annotations to writing a paper.

Step by step tutorial with powerful prompts for researchers:
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In this tutorial we:

1. annotate PDFs in @zotero
2. import them into our notes in @obsdmd
3. work with ChatGPT directly in Obsidian using PROMPT TEMPLATES.
4. Use ChatGPT to write research publications.

(It's absolutely on par with what @NotionHQ recently introduced.)
@zotero @obsdmd @NotionHQ The linked thread will show you how on how to link @zotero and @obsdmd to get your annotations into Obsidian.

Here: Annotate MORE rather than less.
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Dear Followers,

The last 3 weeks I have focused on Literature Discovery. Maybe it is time to explore something else?

What should I focus on next?
(Check examples in the thread before you vote!)
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❌ Most people just collect and summarize PDFs.

A while ago I made a post about my system - but since then, it evolved!

2. Using AI for Academia

The newest generation of AI are excellent jugglers of TEXT, not SENSE.

I've been working on integrating ChatGPT into my notes. (There are some great plugins out there)

Generally I want to use AI outside of ChatGPT, like here:
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If you have too many papers to read but no time, try this:

Pick core papers with @LitmapsApp.
Then balze through the rest with @scispace_ AI.

This workflow saves me days of reading work:
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@LitmapsApp @scispace_ Core papers contain central kewords, topics and problems.

Everyone references them.

If we study them first, we can skim the rest. (see last tweets)

Let's identify these FOUNDATIONAL papers!
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We will pick the most relevant automatically, so much bigger collections are fine.

(Indeed the results might be even better!)

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