[duped]

The act of making the flash cards is more important than having them when you've finished.

[amitav1]

I disagree, assuming that your goal is being able to recall the backside of the flashcard. Making the flashcards is equivalent to 2 or 3 reviews IMO.

[samrus]

Absoluteky not. Actually having to contruct the flashcards embeds the information in your head to deeper level than 10 reviews could

Same with taking notes in class. You can never look at them again but the most benefit comes from having to organize the information in the first palce

[warmedcookie]

I think it depends on the student, but I think you are probably overall correct. As someone who hated reading most of my textbooks, there is absolutely no way I am going to effectively extract relevant flash card material out of them better than an LLM can. I'm going to get bored and my mind will probably wonder and start thinking about other things while I am "reading".

[watwut]

I assure you that if you have that problem, going through flashcards will be even worst. Flashcards are the most mind numbing boring way to learn.

The goal is not "to produce flashcards". The goal is to know the content. And learning off randomly selected factoids without overall structure is just dumb way to learn.

[baq]

Writing stuff down by hand is well known to leave a bigger mark in memory than typing, not sure what you’re comparing to