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[Patron Exclusive!] Prototype of my next explorable
Added 2018-09-06 18:25:59 +0000 UTCHi all! Thanks again for your thoughtful responses to last week's behind-the-scenes post. I want to get better at sharing my process with y'all – and involve you in the process. Speaking of which, here's a patron-exclusive sneak peek at my next explorable!
👉Spaced Repetition Thing, Work-In-Progress 👈
(plz use Firefox/Chrome for now)
It's a bit (read: very) scrappy and unpolished, but I hope it gets the core ideas across. And if not, do let me know! Your early, honest feedback helps make my stuff better. :)
<3,
~ Nicky
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P.S: I now have two spaced repetition decks. (physical Leitner Boxes, not Anki.)
The first is La Boîte Française, and it's got 900 cards so far. That's 900 French nouns, verbs, and conjugations. Thank you all again for your recommendations for les bandes desinées a while back! (Do any of you also have recommendations for les chansons françaises?)
The second is The Everything Box, to remember everything else that's not French. I'm using it to remember friends' birthdays, ukulele chords, facts/figures from articles, etc. You know how you read an absolutely fascinating article/book, and a month later, you can't remember a dang thing? I'm trying to counter that with Spaced Repetition. Right now, I'm making cards from a book while I'm reading it. (Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker – highly recommend!) We'll see if what I learn sticks!
Comments
Loved it already!
Marcelo Gallardo
2018-10-02 02:19:48 +0000 UTCIt is entertaining.. Surely someone must have come up with at Anki system up on GitHub that could be modified with a simple text file or something. Also, have to explain the Sebastian Leitner Box thing. Would be good if you had a way to illustrate the memorization of Hermann Ebbinghaus more than once at the end of the piece too.
mike@openconcept.ca
2018-10-01 13:12:41 +0000 UTCI love the prototype! But that CLIFFHANGER. Now I'm looking up Anki and the Leitner system on my own thanks.
Emelin Ringuette
2018-09-18 16:01:29 +0000 UTCBRB putting this into practice.
Emelin Ringuette
2018-09-18 15:55:59 +0000 UTCI was just talking about long term memory and how I have a terrible memory of names! This would greatly help me.
DominoPivot
2018-09-16 08:00:24 +0000 UTCThanks Will! And that's a good point re: the sweet-spot simulation, I'll figure out how to make that part more clear + accessible!
Nicky Case
2018-09-11 19:06:19 +0000 UTCThanks Sam! And good catch, "active recall" is jargon that I forgot to explain. (I'll fix this later by either explaining it in an earlier section, or just replace it with "try to recall". I'll also try to make that gradient-simulation clearer. Maybe direct instructions to put it in the MIDDLE of the gradient... or making it all/nothing instead of gradient... or have gradient + a very clear line showing the middle?
Nicky Case
2018-09-11 19:05:53 +0000 UTCThanks! I'll work on that interactive, figure out how to make it more accessible :)
Nicky Case
2018-09-11 19:03:35 +0000 UTCThanks for the in-depth feedback, Martyna! And good point re: the thin line + the weird placement of the sliders – I should make the sliders a lot, LOT closer to the thing they're actually changing.
Nicky Case
2018-09-11 19:03:11 +0000 UTCThank you for the feedback, James! > Could there be a playground concept to input and remember what you want? That may be in a later chapter... ;)
Nicky Case
2018-09-11 19:01:48 +0000 UTCI love this one! Such a powerful and simple rule. * As always, I like the learning by doing (in this case the flip cards). For a quick second it wasn’t obvious to me that the first card was clickable, but then I got it. * As always, like the simple cartoons. Nice comedic relief with a point! 🙂 * I still can’t remember that dudes name! 😕 * I like the interactive line charts. Wonder if they could have a bit more annotation at various interaction states, like “Hmm, what was that again?” Or “Oh, yeah I remember!" * Could there be a playground concept to input and remember what you want? Keep up the great work! Love following the process.
James Lytle
2018-09-07 19:01:00 +0000 UTCThis is looking really good :D I can't wait to see what's beyond the cliffhanger! Good work ^^ Now, some feedback, chronologically: Oh man, I love the "scientific masochism" opener xD Quality humor, right there. Really small note: the line striking out "lazy" (from the "Let’s say you’re lazy time-efficient" part) looks hella thin and out of place with the font you're using. LOVE the use of flipping cards : D The first interactive that lets the user change the sweet spot: decay and sweet spot are in the same line, but sweet spot's slider is pushed to a new line, making a confusing layout in the process (I had a mental hiccup right there). Awesome use of the recall cards! Personally, I can't for the life of me remember the guy's name - pretty sure it's my own quirk and not the interactible's fault xD (Coz it's not info I expect to use ever, as opposed to the actual methods & curves.) Re: others' opinions on the gradient: the gradient worked for me (mainly bcoz I looked at what spot made the curve change).
Lisza
2018-09-07 11:19:36 +0000 UTCI like it! It took me a little bit to figure out what I was supposed to do when you first introduced the sweet spot. Maybe making the sweet spot a little lower would make it a bit easier to discover?
Tim S (Banana Juice Tech)
2018-09-06 22:11:27 +0000 UTCLove it! One thing caught me up: It wasn't so clear at first that the sweet spot colored in yellow decreased the rate of forgetting. I thought for a minute that that happened anyways and I had to go back and see that, in the first interactive example before the sweet spot was added, the rate didn't decrease no matter where you put the recall. Hope that makes sense.
Will Harris-Braun
2018-09-06 20:11:33 +0000 UTCThis is exiting! I hope to be able to apply that, thanks! :D
tuxayo
2018-09-06 19:57:19 +0000 UTCI could see using this with some faculty I work with. I had two points of confusion: 1. I'm not sure what is meant by "actively recall." Does this mean "successful recall" or "attempted recall?" I gather it is the former, but it took me a while to get that from context if so. 2. The first "increasing gaps sweet spot" interactive wasn't making sense for me because I had the first recall set near the bottom of the sweet spot gradient, rather than the center, which had a major effect on the rest of the graph. I even thought I was matching the auto-optimized interactive just below, and had to look really closely to see that my recalls were set slightly lower than the correct optimized graph. I think the sweet spot gradient was acting as a bit of an optical illusion for me, but I could be wrong.
Sam
2018-09-06 19:25:25 +0000 UTC
