Not familiar with obsidian myself, but been seeing it frequently lately. Any chance you could explain to me how you would use your project in an actual workflow?
More like, how does it know what to bring and when? is it more like "organize all by yourself beforehand" and then it shows relevant stuff you grouped before?
2. If you go through the cards frequently, the link between the cover and the related knowledge gets stronger.
3. You can skim through the decks when you are working on something or randomly, so you can know in seconds if the knowledge linked to a card is useful and how you can synthesize that learning with your current context.
Some Examples:
1. You are working on a new product and you are thinking about what you could be improving. You go through your UX deck and you have the cards for Hicks law or Skeumorphic design you learned from some book or a video. If they were just text your brain has to do a more work remembering what they are, and you may stop going back after some time. But now they have a picture - maybe a remote controls with few a buttons and you think about what you could be simplifying.
2.You are about to make an investment in a company because you like their product, but years ago you read about that famous example of the affect heuristic, where someone makes an investment because they liked the cars rather than asking a question if their stock is undervalued. You see a red Ford on a card, and example comes back vividly.
P.S. not claiming that this is an ideal system to keep notes, just one of many. It's basically a Zettelkasten-style where there is a one idea per card, but with a mnemonic card as a face. Of course, not every note needs a face, just the ones worth revisiting from time to time.
If I'm understanding correctly, the idea of the system is to remind you of things you would usually forget.
Then wouldn't it make more sense to strengthen the connections based on how RARELY I visit them because they are more likely to be forgotten? If I visited something often, I probably will remember it more.
This would create a huge issue of reminding things you would prefer to be forgotten, and I don't know how to fully automatically resolve that tbh.
You are right, flashcard systems use spaced-repetition for that purpose and it's not used here (maybe some variant can be useful). I'm usually ok if i forget something If I can remember them easily.
I get your point about forgetting but it's still easy once your remove them or put them in a less frequently visited place. Trained memory traces still decay naturally over time
Not familiar with obsidian myself, but been seeing it frequently lately. Any chance you could explain to me how you would use your project in an actual workflow?
More like, how does it know what to bring and when? is it more like "organize all by yourself beforehand" and then it shows relevant stuff you grouped before?
Good question, I think it all depends on what you work on day to day but I can try to explain how I use them personally.
It actually doesn't know what to bring and when. The brain just learns a way to efficiently store the "pointers".
1. you make shortcuts for your most important learnings and experiences with a memory trick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic. Since you are picking the text and the image there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect at work.
2. If you go through the cards frequently, the link between the cover and the related knowledge gets stronger.
3. You can skim through the decks when you are working on something or randomly, so you can know in seconds if the knowledge linked to a card is useful and how you can synthesize that learning with your current context.
Some Examples:
1. You are working on a new product and you are thinking about what you could be improving. You go through your UX deck and you have the cards for Hicks law or Skeumorphic design you learned from some book or a video. If they were just text your brain has to do a more work remembering what they are, and you may stop going back after some time. But now they have a picture - maybe a remote controls with few a buttons and you think about what you could be simplifying.
2.You are about to make an investment in a company because you like their product, but years ago you read about that famous example of the affect heuristic, where someone makes an investment because they liked the cars rather than asking a question if their stock is undervalued. You see a red Ford on a card, and example comes back vividly.
P.S. not claiming that this is an ideal system to keep notes, just one of many. It's basically a Zettelkasten-style where there is a one idea per card, but with a mnemonic card as a face. Of course, not every note needs a face, just the ones worth revisiting from time to time.
If I'm understanding correctly, the idea of the system is to remind you of things you would usually forget.
Then wouldn't it make more sense to strengthen the connections based on how RARELY I visit them because they are more likely to be forgotten? If I visited something often, I probably will remember it more.
This would create a huge issue of reminding things you would prefer to be forgotten, and I don't know how to fully automatically resolve that tbh.
You are right, flashcard systems use spaced-repetition for that purpose and it's not used here (maybe some variant can be useful). I'm usually ok if i forget something If I can remember them easily.
I get your point about forgetting but it's still easy once your remove them or put them in a less frequently visited place. Trained memory traces still decay naturally over time