[rsanek]

Great write-up. I especially liked

> I find the common advice of “write your own cards” misplaced: you pay the opportunity cost of not reviewing all the cards you don’t make.

This perspective of cost is a nice way of putting it. The other side to me is that writing your own cards can, but does not necessarily, improve retention on its own. Much of card creation is still mostly manual formatting, copy-pasting, etc.

My own solution to this has been to build an 80-20 version of what was demo'd in the "AI canvas" part of the video. I drop in a source (pdf, epub, etc), and an LLM prompt creates cards. I just use Anki Connect to directly add these cards to my collection.

Would be interested in seeing the Rember system prompt for card creation, and hearing what LLM is being used. I've seen wildly different results from changing my own prompt (and from using different models).