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Anki, believe it or not. Anki and sticking with the same small bag of tools.

There are quite a few things which are best kept as "fingertip knowledge", even with the assistance of GPT-4.

Can you please share a couple of examples on how you use Anki?

I put in random facts and categorize them. Topic of reading comes up, I can never remember books I’ve read. I started making Anki flash cards of book summaries. I review this and other topics for 15 minutes a day

I had an idea like this for helping introverts with icebreaking small talk. Flash style cards for each person, with info on what you spoke about last time, and a pre-prepared opener for the next time you bump into them. With the card info being updated each time you meet them.

Exactly! I've found I'm a lot more talkative and I appear to be more of a fast thinker with this approach. I have about 15 subjects (outside of coding - sports, wine, pop culture, national parks, current music, popular fiction, tv shows, movies) that I try to be knowledgable on and the flashcards help

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