Difference between revisions of "Quotability vs ankifiability"

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It seems to me that quotable things and ankifiable things both have the property of ''locality'': the punch is packed into a small part of the text, which you can "clip out" into an atomic insight.
 
It seems to me that quotable things and ankifiable things both have the property of ''locality'': the punch is packed into a small part of the text, which you can "clip out" into an atomic insight.
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* [[Discursive texts are difficult to ankify]]
  
 
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Revision as of 00:55, 15 May 2020

Something is quotable if it is easy to make into a quote. As someone who has written a bunch of Wikiquote pages, I've paid attention to this property of people. Some people are much more quotable than others.

Something is ankifiable if it is easy to turn into an Anki card. As someone who aspires to virtuoso-level ability in using Anki, I've thought a lot about how to turn a piece of text (such as a math textbook or online essay) into an Anki card. Some texts are much more ankifiable than others.

It seems to me that quotable things and ankifiable things both have the property of locality: the punch is packed into a small part of the text, which you can "clip out" into an atomic insight.

See also