Using Notion to Create Spaced Repetition Flashcards | Study Techniques
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- Опубліковано 1 січ 2021
- Hey friends! Welcome back to my channel! I'm Connor, a medical student in London, and this video is a follow up from my last study techniques video. In this video I'm going to show you how I make spaced repetition flashcards in Notion!
I really hope you enjoy the video, please remember to subscribe if you find it useful!
Here's the template!
www.notion.so/Template-Spaced...
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Want to see how I use this template to make my flashcards? Where do I get the information from? How do I decide what is worth putting on a flashcard?
Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/XKfP8qVzAwo/v-deo.html
Thanks! This is working so well for me to memorize botanical description terms. Alternate, cross-venulate, cordate leaves with a doubly-serrate margin, here I come! Your formula for spaced repetition is working so well, and I would love to see more about how you use Notion to study. I'm not a medical student, but it translates so well to a lot of topics I'm trying to learn more about. Cheers and thanks.
Hannah that’s so amazing to hear! Thank you for your kind comment! Some great motion videos in the pipeline. Anything in particular you’d like to see?
Smashed it mate, easier than Anki and all in one place in Notion! Hope this blows up
Thank you so much Kalp!
Really Thank you for this free template. Its really Useful!
That formula is genius! Love this template! Thank you!
Cheers mate!! I’m glad you liked it! Please do let me know if you find any issues with it. I’m always looking for something else to tackle too, so let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for sharing your ideas, and I love the elegance of your code!
Thanks so much, dude! I hope you give it a go! Let me know if you have any issues with it, or if there is anything else you'd like to learn about Notion!
It took me a while to figure this out yesterday because I am a notion novice but today... WHAT A BLESSING. THANK YOU x 10^100. You've saved my degree 😁
That’s so incredible to hear!! Imm really glad it’s helped you. If you have ANY questions about Notion or study just let me know!
Brother, all the way from New Zealand , thank you for creating this Flashcard system - it rocks!! Keep doing your thing, you're magic!
Hey Bryn! Thanks for such a kind comment! ❤️
Incredible!
You make an awesome extension to Notion!
I love this tutorial man! Best i've seen so far on the subject. Thanks!
I'm so glad it was helpful!
So glad this video exists! Thank youuu 👏🏻
Thank you so much Emily!!!
thanks for the help connor ..looking forward to implement this in my studies! cheers !
Amazing!! So glad you found it useful my dude. Let me know if you find any issues!
This is great stuff Connor, thanks so much for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it! No worries at all!
Thanks Connor. This will help my students of ESL. Really grateful.
That’s so good to hear!
wonderful! i had been looking for this for a long time! THX
Glad I could help!
Brilliant!!! Absolutely love this!! Can’t wait to give it a try. And smart work on your coding!!! 👌👌😂
Hey Hayley, I hope the flashcards worked for you?!
This is absolutely utterly amazing Connor. I've just found your channel, because I looooove my notion for my life and recently have been looking into how to create flashcards instead of class notes... this is so amazingly epic, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this template.
Thank you so much Nikki!! That is so kind! Do you have anything else you wish you could do in Notion?
@@ConnorDibblin handwritten notes using the Apple pencil maybe ??
@@84lakshanab80 totally agree! It works so badly currently, fingers crossed they fix it in an update soon! 🤞
This video is so underrated. Thank you
Thanks so much Jan!
Eureka moment!! Thanks, bro. May The Force be with You!
Haha, cheers dude!
Thank you! This is amazing, so much easier to use than anki when all my notes are within Notion
That’s so great to hear!!
Hi Connor, thank you so much for this..
My pleasure! 😇
Hi Connor, just want to let you know that I've incorporated your beautiful formula in a template I've created for my students. The formula is more for the entire notes rather than for a single flashcard. Nonetheless, I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your work. Thanks once again.
That’s amazing 🤩
@@ConnorDibblin Thank you! ☺️
This Is absolutely amazing. I was struggling to make it automatically change , thanks you soo much
I'm so glad it helped! Did you have any questions about the template? 😀
@@ConnorDibblin no it was easy to use , I added hidden unswer formula , so that I wouldn’t have to in to the page every time , but it works better if the unswers are short
Thank you, I was trying with the toogle and checking tons of questions each 2 or three days, hopefully this will give me more help.
Hi Judal, I hope you find this useful! Please do let me know if you have any questions - I respond to all comments or you can message on twitter or IG. good luck with your revision, you can do it!
@@ConnorDibblin thanks friend. You’re super kind. Gonna follow along :)
Best video on UA-cam on spaced repetition!!
Thanks Marty, that means so much!
This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you Connor!! You saved my life! But I hope you can help me more.. I can see the filter to Today's gallery in the video but it is NOT applied in the templet you shared. The fomular and filter conditions are the main keys to complete my notion. Can you let me know how you applied the filter to Today's gallery? PLEASE ~~~~
I am cyber security degree and dyslexic too. I found your video extremely helpful.
That sounds so interesting!
amazing video! thank u for the template, haha i always found notion quite fiddly.
Thank you so much!
Thanks!
hi does anyone know how to display only today's date in the quick view inline feature? I would like to use this template, but I can't quite figure that part out, thank youu
Thanks for sharing the clean formula, Connor. I'm going to adapt it and create a template for my students. Will credit you, of course.
Go for it, that sounds amazing! I'd be really keen to see what you come up with. If you have any trouble please do let me know.
@@ConnorDibblin Thanks! That's really awesome. I'm also keen to see what I can come up with. 😆
Btw, very elegant way to rewrite Danny Hatcher's clumsy formula! Well done. :)
Glad you liked it!
Question, does spaced repetition apply to courses like biochem?
Thanks , but I need a help if the level is empty i need the formula to show empty because when it is empty it shows the day before
@connor Dibblin - Currently, you have TWO fields to fill, every time you revise a flashcard :-
1) Level
2)Date Wrong.
You can reduce this to entering only ONE field (ie level) by replacing the 'date wrong' property with the notion inbuilt property 'last edited time '.
the formula would look something like this -> dateAdd(prop("Last edited time"), pow(2, toNumber(prop("Level")) - 1) - 1, "days")
Now as you can see, just enter the level, formula will update the rest by itself.
btw, great work with that ingenious formula, never thought of using notion properties this way untill I saw this video. Thanks!
That looks like it might work really well, let me know if it's working for you!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thank for this amazing video and template. I am using this template for language learning. I'm facing kind of an issue here. When I create a new flashcard and even if I set it to level 2, and it doesn't need to be reviewed on that same day, it still appears in "today's gallery". Any suggestion or fix will be so much helpful. Have a great day :)
hii..please make a video on how to make that pemplate, thank you
Sure thing!
Hi Connor , whenever I am putting this formula my notion app says prop 8,12 not defined ... please help me
Thank you so muchhhh, maybe not but is it posible to share your notion with your medical notes? 😅
Thank you Connor! Elegant! My question has to do with the NUMBER OF OPTIONS in the LEVEL column. I'm not sure I need 10 of them, maybe 5. How does decreasing the number of options available impact the formula? If it has significant impact, can you give an example of how you'd redo the formula to accommodate 5 levels? Thank you!
Hey good question! That just depends on the maximum amount of time you want to spend between iterations. With 5 levels, the longest you would have between flashcards would be 2^(5-1) (=16 days) with 10 options you could have almost 2 years in between cards. If you only wanted 5 levels, but wanted to have more days between flashcards, you could change the formula to be base 3. That way you would see cards every 3^(level-1) eg 81 days at level 5
Honestly I have no idea what happened with the video at for a few seconds at 7:20 ... couldn't tell you what's gone wrong there! 😂
Hello Connor ! Thank you so much about the template. I am a beginner user of Notion . Can you explain me with a few steps how you manage to do this format at 7:40 ? I am talking about these inline databases you mentioned . Thank you!
Sure thing! If you hit the "+" button in Notion to add a new block on a page you'll see a menu. You can then scroll down to the "Databases" section and select "Gallery Database - Inline".
Alternatively, type "/Gallery Database Inline" and select the pop up at your text cursor.
I hope that helps!
@@ConnorDibblin thank you so much!
Me too is beginner, can't understand how to import code. I dont even know how to make flash card. I m just adding screen shots in notion in different files. but i need spaced repitition function.
prop is not defined. [8,12] prop is not defined. [33,37]
how to fix this erro . help me pls
Very good solution. My main issue with flashcards is that you can't put enough information in them. Doing it in Notion is perfect.
Good point! Although be careful not to over load each card - sometimes several smaller flashcards are actually more useful than a single long one
Can anyone tell how to import that code in mobile app?
It's a bit tricky to do in the mobile app, I honestly tend to set things up on a computer and then only use my phone for doing the flashcards
Hey, suggest me to use one, Anki or notion, for flashcards??
I like to use Notion personally!
how did you create that table..basically? please can you explain
Sure thing KYR!
thanks a lot
You are most welcome! 🤗
Amazing. I'm just going to test.
Let me know if you have any questions!
@@ConnorDibblin I'm already testing it. It's perfect. I just changed the multiple to 3 to adapt to my reality.
I can't figure out how to change the filter to show the flashcards that I need to do that day. And also make a filter to show overdue flashcards. How do I do that? Thanks in advance
Hi Koji, Thank you for your question!
To view cards that are due today you want to use Filter > Where "NEXT" is "on" "Today"
To View overdue cards you want to use Filter > Where "Next" is "Before" "Today"
To view all cards due today and overdue cards in the same view you want to use Filter > Where "Next" is "On or Before" "Today".
I really hope that helps! Apologies for taking so long to get back to your comment.
Hey man thanks for taking the time to do these videos. I'm confused though - How are you getting the flashcards for that day to show up on the "todays flashcards" page rather than having to go into each individual flashcard "deck" if you want to call it that (like at 7:40).
Hey Johny, thanks so much for the comment! If you mean how do I get a page with all of the flashcards from different subjects due that day, I create a new page and within that add an inline linked database to each of the “decks”. Then for each I set the filter to be “due today” or “due on or before today” depending on your preference. I hope that clears it up a little, let me know if you have any further questions! Connor ✌️
@@ConnorDibblin Hey man thanks for the reply! I have got abit further now in my attempt to replicate your system but I am once again stuck. I have created the page like you mentioned above and set the filter to "where [Next] [is on or before] [exact date] but all the cards still show. How do you hide the "cards" that aren't currently due? hope that makes sense and once again, thanks so much for taking the time.
@@ConnorDibblin I got ahead of myself and now realise my issue: I changed [exact date] to [today] and it seems to be working now. I won't delete my comment in case someone else has the same issue as I had.
That sounds like it should have worked! Make sure the date in the filter is set to “Today” so that it will change each day.
Nice work man! Intuitive code for impressive gains. Anki you better watch out... ;)
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how did you manage to create the table below the title to fill our the dates, level... etc???
I need to do a similar table but I can't find a way to get it exactly like that. The only thing I can do is in Table format but looks horrible.
Do you mean the properties on the cards?
Hi, I could not understand how to insert this template into my notion. When I duplicate it appears on notion web but not at my notion app. Can someone explain how to deal with it?
Hi Will! Sorry to hear you’re having trouble.
A couple little fixes I can think of:
1. If it appears on your notion web, try moving it to another location in your notion. Then make sure your app is up to date and it should be there.
2. If that doesn’t work, try duplicating it and then coping the table into an existing page in your app.
I don’t know of anyone else having too much of a problem with this so hopefully it’ll work out! Please do let me know if it’s still not working and I’ll try to think of something else. Thank you for commenting!
Hi there! I'm new to Notion. How do you create a "Today's Flashcards" page like yours? Also, I have duplicated your template to my Notion (thank you!), but how can I apply it to my new pages? I'm running around in circles.
Hey Alessandro, thanks for commenting!
To do that you simply want to insert a "linked database".
So, each deck of flashcards gets its own notion page, then you can show all relevant cards on one page with multiple linked databases. I hope that helps!
Can we use those flash cards as notes anyway ?
Yeah you can!
Just one last thing. Is there a way to put toggle boxes as the questions rather than having each one open as a page with the answer?
If you type the answer into a toggle list within the page then that should solve your problem
Thank you😄
You’re so welcome dude! Have you tried the template? Let me know if you have any questions about it!
@@ConnorDibblin I’m using quizlet mainly for a-levels but hopefully once I get into dentistry I’ll be using notion instead
@@haris2724 that’s awesome! Good luck with your A levels buddy. What’re you taking?
@@ConnorDibblin bio chem and business. And thank God I picked business instead of maths
Hey Connor can you help me out? It's not showing today's flashcards, it shows all the flaschards I've made, regardless of the date I got it wrong/date when it´s due
That sounds like you might need to check that the 'Filter' option is set to only chow flash cards with a due date on or before today. I hope that works, please let me know if it doesn't and I can suggest something else! C
Hello Connor. I found this video alot useful since i don’t use laptop, so I always wanted something like Anki on my iPad. Thank you for your help. I used your template on my notion workspace, but I couldn’t add more than 1 page /flash card in your table. I don’t know what the problem is.
Hi Mansi, sorry to hear you’re having some issues there! The problem could be to do with the date you have set the flashcards for? In ‘today’s’ it will only show you flashcards you are due to repeat on or before today.
@@ConnorDibblin No. I can see them in Today's gallery but they aren't visible in All items.
That’s odd! Can’t think how that would have happened unless a filter has been applied to your version of “all items”. Check there’s no sorting or filter applied I think! I’m very curious to know what the issue is, let me know if that fixes it!
@@ConnorDibblin Hello, I checked again there is no sorting and filter all are normal . I don’t know what the problem is but I made my own table and used our formula so it works same like your template and it work normal. So, thankyou😀🌼
@@drmansi1049 I'm so glad you got it working! Sorry the template wasn't working as-is, I'll do some digging behind the scenes and see if I can iron out those issues! I would really appreciate a 'Subscribe' if you haven't already! Let me know if there is anything else you are looking to do in Notion and I'll see if i can help you out!
What code do you write if you want a specific number of days to wait rather than doubling or tripling from the last one?
You could use. Next = [date last wrong] + ([level] x [number of days between repetitions])
@@ConnorDibblin Thanks. I found that just changing "pow" to "add" works well enough. It now just adds the level as a day. So if says level 5 the next study is 5 days later. I'm so glad you made this template because i'm about to start a 3 year degree. Before now I was manually typing when to study each piece of information next within the toggle box. It was taking too long. Thanks for sharing your setup.
You’re very welcome
Thanks for the flash card i will start trying it😎 you forgot to put a link to the stikers 😔
Added!
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I copied your formula and it was working great. Now, the NEXT date is jumping around to later and later dates before I have even close the card, and some level 2s are set for March 2023. Any idea why that would be happening?
Hmm I'm not sure there, are you sure that the formula in the 'Next' section has stayed the same? The only other thing I can think might be that the 'last wrong' property isn't being set correctly
@@ConnorDibblin Well, it did with every card for a couple of days, and then stopped. I am hoping it was something with the change to the 2022 dates, and it is all done now. I guess I will see next January! Thanks though.
Thanks for pointing that out!
In this setup, the "Front" of the card is just the disease name, and the "Back" of the card is EVERYTHING you have on from Epidemiology to Management? That seems like a lot for one flashcard. Do you know any ways of reducing the information for each card? I feel like I'd never get off 1 and would get really frustrated and probably stop reviewing cards. I am trying to determine if RemNote or Notion works better for me. I like the customizability of Notion, but the simplicity in flashcards (e.g., front and back or cloze functions) and collapsing information in RemNote are really well done.
Kudos for the coding.
I think do whatever works for you.
If you're getting more out of specific, single answer questions then lean more towards "what is the name of the gene that causes X disease" with the answer on the back, instead of "disease name" on the front and then all the info on the back
This is awesome, but when I choose today's gallery all my flashcards are shown, even if I select level 10. Do you know where the problem lies? Keep up the good work!
Hey! I think the issue there might lie in the filter. Try checking the filter on today view, make sure it is only showing those due on or before today
@@ConnorDibblin I tried this and it worked. Thanks a lot! I'm super excited to start using this technique
@@filipkronander2592 amazing! Glad it’s working now
The Flashcard would have taken a better form perhaps if there was dropdowns incorporated for every title or topic, perhaps posing a question under each one, that way you could try to recall it before opening the toggles, that way each card could perhaps have a percentage giving a better approximation for the 1-10 score.
Hey Seamus! That sounds great, maybe more of a revision-question style flashcard that way, rather than just the recall. I quite like having my cards very minimal - a single answer for each card. That does mean you end up with many smaller cards.
I like your suggestion though, maybe I’ll play around with it and see what I can make!
@@ConnorDibblin Hi mate, I didn't mean the original comment to be patronising. I hope it came across as only a suggestion. Yeah I suppose I'm suggesting a mini quiz of sorts. I suppose the style of flashcard would depend entirely on the content also. I'm going to use your template to try and incorporate the active recall.
No it didn't at all! Let me know how it goes, and if you run into any issues with it!
Hello thank you for this video. You skipped right into your already made flashcards but did not show how to make one from scratch. Please create that video. It would be greatly appreciated.
Is it possible to export these flashcards to anki?
Not that I know of, but the whole system is designed as an alternative to using ANKI, for people who don’t like ANKI (like me!)
@@ConnorDibblin I see. Just that my friends I make flashcards as a group and share among us. They use anki (just flashcards and no notes) but i need a note with a flow. So i was wondering whether i can make the cards like this and then share to anki. Thank you anyway :)
If you do find a way please let me know!
Interesting. Sounds similar to waterfall method.
I'm not really sure what that is? Could you explain?
@@ConnorDibblin You commented on using electronic flashcards in a spaced repetition. If you knew the answer, then you use a longer duration between the repetitions. It reminded me of someone using paper flashcards similarly. In the scenario, she may have 60 flashcards to study. The first pass through the flashcards, those she knew goes into one pile. Those she did not know goes to the second pile. She would take the second pile, review and retest. Those she knew goes to the new second pile, those she did not goes to a third pile. She would take the third pile, review and retest. Those she knew goes to the new third pile, those she did not goes to the fourth pile. This process would be repeated up to ten piles. Once she gets the remaining questions correct, she would something like seven stack of flashcards in a downward slope, left to right. It would represent a waterfall type view. The second phase would be to work backwards right to left with those piles, creating a new waterfall the opposite direction. Hopefully, this makes sense and answered your question.
Ahhh yeah that does make sense, and sounds like an interesting way of testing yourself!
So what if you are supposed to do a flashcard on a day but you forget to do it. Does that same flash card that you missed just show up everysingle day in the que of "todays flashcards" until you awnser it
Your choice! You can set it so that the ‘today’s view’ shows either *only* flashcards due today or *all* flashcards that are due *today or earlier*
You could even choose to have a view that showed only today’s and a second view that showed overdue flashcards!
@@ConnorDibblin can u copy and paste that code for me or something😂. Im planning on setting up notion before i start college. Im gonna to see if a helpful subreddit exists with other stuff aa well
@@Repienk you should be able to copy the code from the Notion template, let me know if not!
@@ConnorDibblin thanks i figured it out. Also do u think remnote is better than notion for taking notes and studying
Thanks Mr. Connor for the Video. I suggest that video can directly go to the main topic, share how to make Repetition Flashcards, skip the introduction.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Enjoy the video all! I started using Notion more partly due to @aliabdaal, who you should 100% checkout! Here is the template for the spaced repetition flashcards: www.notion.so/Template-Spaced-Repetition-04ec4d2ab19f4f37bc3e704d671f9544
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I couldn't duplicate the template
@@ummirayali9355 I'm sorry to hear that dude! You could try going through this page: www.notion.so/Connor-s-Dashboard-12e48e663c63442e928c2b97af52e225
Hey! Thankyou so much for sharing the template :D
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Thanks dude
Repetition or repititon?
Repetition in UK english 😃
pretty basic and manual, but works perfectly =))
Glad it helped
Hey ! New subscriber here ! love the content bro, I thought your Q and A was very relatable ! from one content creator to another ! keep it up ! feel free to check out my channel and I look forward to seeing your progress !
2:09 I get stressed studying but boy am I glad I didn't choose medicine..
What do you study?
@@ConnorDibblin Ecology, so it's half practical based. A lot of the grade is given just by showing up to expeditions.
Honestly, either use chapters of get to the point
I wish I could give you thousands of likes for this video. This is amazing. Thanks!!!!!! 🥹
Thanks!
Welcome!