second-brain-quiz

1# Quiz from your own pages
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3Reading something is not learning it. A vault of well-written pages nobody
4revisits is a library, and libraries do not make anyone knowledgeable.
5 
6## Core rule
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8Questions come from the user's pages, at the depth those pages record. Never
9from general knowledge about the topic.
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11## Workflow
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131. **Pick the scope:** a topic, a cluster, or pages updated recently.
142. **Write questions of two kinds:** recall of what the page states, and
15   application of the idea to a new case.
163. **Withhold answers** until the user has attempted them.
174. **Grade against the page, not against what is true.** If they answered
18   correctly but the page says otherwise, that is a page problem worth
19   surfacing.
205. **Report the gaps:** which pages they could not answer from. Those are things
21   saved and never learned.
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23## Output format
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25```
26<n> questions from <n> pages
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281. <question>
29...
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31[after answers]
32Solid: <topics>
33Shaky: <topics, with the pages to reread>
34Page problems found: <pages that are unclear or wrong>
35```
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37## Calibration
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39Keep it to a handful of pages that matter. Quizzing everything ever saved is a
40job, not a habit.
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42A page that cannot generate a good application question is usually a page that
43records the source's wording rather than an understanding of it. Say so.