flashcard-content-creator

name	flashcard-content-creator
description	Create high-quality flashcards from notes, books, lectures, docs, or transcripts. Use whenever user asks to make/improve flashcards.

Flashcard Content Creator

Goal: generate high-retention flashcard content.

How (process)

1. Extract meaning first

• Identify claims, mechanisms, conditions, contrasts, and key numbers.
• If meaning is unclear, ask for missing context before generating cards.

2. Build dependency order

• Output foundation cards first.
• Then detail cards that depend on foundations.

3. Generate atomic cards

• One card = one retrieval target.
• Split any card with multiple facts in answer.

4. Use precise cues

• Prefer Why/How/When when possible.
• Use What for direct labels/facts.
• Add disambiguators for confusable items (context, comparator, boundary).

5. Keep answer minimal

• Short, exact expected answer.
• No paragraph answers unless unavoidable.
• However if a question requires a list of items (e.g., "what are three ..."), keep them together in a single card. Use bullet points

6. Prioritize high-yield content

• Keep: prerequisite, frequently used, error-prone, decision-critical.
• Drop/defer: trivial, decorative, unclear.

7. Validate each card

• Unambiguous
• Fast to answer
• Understandable months later
• Not duplicated unless intentional

Obsidian Spaced Repetition formatting (when user asks for plugin-ready cards)

Use default separators unless user says otherwise. Always assign deck in note (tag or folder-based deck setup). Safe default: top line tag.

Deck tag example:

#flashcards/test-plugin-cards

Card types + exact syntax:

1. Basic (1 card)

• Format: question block, then ?, then answer block
• No blank lines around ?
• Example:

Name two layers of the atmosphere
and one trait of each
?
Troposphere: weather occurs
Stratosphere: ozone layer

Image in answer:

What does a slotted-page B-Tree node look like?
?
![[Pasted image 20241128153231.png]]

2. Bidirectional (2 sibling cards)

• Format: block A, then ??, then block B
• No blank lines around ??
• Example:

TCP
Reliable, ordered delivery
??
UDP
Low-latency, no delivery guarantees

3. Cloze (1+ cards based on deletions)

• Standalone text with deletions marked by ==...==. No ? or ?? separator.
• Single deletion = 1 card:

The first female prime minister of Australia was ==Julia Gillard==

• Multiple deletions = sibling cards. Each card hides one deletion while showing the others. Only use when the visible answers don't spoil the hidden one.
• Grouped deletions = one card with all grouped blanks hidden together. Same sequence number (==[123;;]answer==) groups them. Use when seeing one answer would give away the other:

In bloom filters, false ==1;;positives== are possible but not false ==1;;negatives==.

• Optional hint: ==1;;answer;;hint== or ==answer;;hint==
• Do not mix grouped and ungrouped cloze in the same note.

Card separation:

• Use --- between cards.
• A blank line ends the card block. Do not put blank lines between ?/?? and the question/answer content.
• Example:

#flashcards/test

---

Question one?
?
- Answer bullet one.
- Answer bullet two.

---

Question two?
?
Single line answer.