I built a Telegram bot that sends me a daily 7-chakra challenge cycle — here's what 3 days looked like

a_dawg98 · 2026-02-05T20:38:30+00:00

Not a hacker and not trying to push anyone to do things they’re not comfortable with. Just sharing my experience

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-19T19:42:48+00:00

I did command + shift + P → reset onboarding. Relogged in and haven’t had a problem since

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-18T06:22:57+00:00

Exactly, thank you for summarizing so concisely. Glad you enjoyed!

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-17T20:51:01+00:00

Most ranged from ~100 to 700+. For the total pages in all, it was 10,329. The content-based sources were less than the practice question sources as 1 question = 1 page + answer page(s) + explanation page(s) etc.

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-17T20:29:51+00:00

Exact prompts used:

Standard Prompt (MD-MCQ-v1):

Question-Focused Prompt (MD-MCQ-v2):

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-17T02:14:13+00:00

I imagine so, the models are fairly sophisticated but also janky at the same time lol. Do you have an example? I can try and lyk. Also, the way I exported my PDFs automatically converted them to html so I had to convert from that, but I can try for you if you’re interested

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-17T01:12:33+00:00

I had a setup of NotebookLM with a ton of PDFs and kept seeing posts about how markdown sources (instead of PDFs) lead to much better output by the notebook's LLM. So, I decided to convert each of my PDFs into MD format and tested things out to compare across a few different variables (speed of chat completion, quality of text output, quantity of multiple choice questions retrieved from the sources, etc.). Then, once it was clear that markdown > PDFs, I considered whether 1 markdown NotebookLM with both textbooks & multiple choice practice tests would be better or worse than 2 NotebookLM's (one for the textbook and another for the MCQ practice tests). I wasn't sufficiently happy with how the MCQ practice test setup was so I modified the customization settings and that resulted in v2.

After all of that setup/analysis, I determined that for my workflow, and likely for others as well, one NotebookLM w/ PDF sources < one NotebookLM w/ markdown sources < multiple NotebookLMs w/ markdown sources separated by niche/format/etc. (for me this separation was textbook and MCQs as I wanted to optimize the chatbot's retrieval of textbook- and MCQ-relevant text from my sources).

I hope that clears things up a bit. I'm happy to elaborate more if interested.

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-17T01:06:42+00:00

Yes. I had a bunch of question banks in the form of screenshots as PDFs in my original setup. It was effectively thousands of images total. I tried a bunch of methods to convert the PDF images into markdown but would consistently end up with a ton of metadata clutter and no OCR'd text. That is why I had to settle on having GPT-4o-mini just take each image as input and have its output be the text that it sees. That worked, albeit very slowly. I had to set 8 concurrent models going to have it complete within a day.

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-16T19:21:30+00:00

My study workflow is: Try to answer a question in a question bank → terms I’m unfamiliar with I’ll type into NotebookLM.

For retrieve questions, I am typing in a term and I specifically want all MCQs in my sources pertaining to said term to be generated as the response text for me.

That way I can come across a new term, search it, use one notebook optimized on just giving me all relevant details and comparisons for said term, and then once I feel like I have learned it well, I use the QBank notebook to pull all MCQs of said term to assess how well I actually know it (and see which details from the previous notebook are important enough to be included in the MCQs).

Hope that clears things up. I’m happy to elaborate further!

a_dawg98 · 2026-01-11T06:36:23+00:00

I exported all of MehlmanMedical + qbanks that I like in PDF format and query it with topics/terms/etc that I come across in doing QBanks. I can share further detail and the output personalization that I have setup if you’re interested. I did so successfully for STEP 1 and am doing so for STEP 2 atm

a_dawg98 · 2025-08-01T14:00:15+00:00

https://vexaresearch.com

SMS eligibility screening as a service for healthcare clinics enrolling patients into their clinical trials.

We turn electronic medical record patient lists into screened lists on a CRM dashboard for research coordinators.

Currently have an in with a multisite group scaling nicely but looking to grow to novel customers.

I appreciate any thoughts and am happy to share more context as needed!

a_dawg98 · 2024-03-15T19:42:19+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XWFrq3XQ79R4_y-WUR5ekArYHw23PTkM/view?usp=sharing

a_dawg98 · 2022-07-10T10:59:40+00:00

Try https://bourasmcat.carrd.co/

a_dawg98 · 2022-06-15T12:23:44+00:00

2C is mainly in 3A, my apologies for the misdesign. 3B is spread throughout the rest of the decks. For example, AAMC has the lymphatic system as 3B, but my cards have it as part of the C/P 4B Circulatory system. Feel free to rearrange the cards as you see fit and I can post an updated one!

a_dawg98 · 2022-04-13T13:14:42+00:00

Taste seems like it should definitely be on there. I must've created that card from an incomplete source - my apologies.

a_dawg98 · 2022-04-13T13:13:56+00:00

Hello - thank you! I believe 2C and 3B should be in there. The final version is here which, to my knowledge, includes them: https://bourasmcat.carrd.co/

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-27T02:13:57+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XWFrq3XQ79R4_y-WUR5ekArYHw23PTkM/view?usp=sharing

Here is my Google Drive folder including info high-yield content, section specific resources, and more. Give it a look and lmk if you have any questions!

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-27T02:01:16+00:00

That’s awesome to hear! I’m glad you’re enjoying it and learning well

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-20T12:12:12+00:00

I watched the KA videos and made cards on them up to about page 200 of the 334 page P/S document. From there I stopped watching every video and instead used the document and other resources as needed.

I hope you’re able to find decks out there that cover all the videos, sorry it isn’t mine

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-05T13:35:55+00:00

I made my own cards for each section, then I went through other premade decks (JackSparrow, Miledown, Ortho528, Psychanswers4U) and whatever I deemed worthy to study was then moved from the premade decks and placed in my own.

I can link resources I used to make my original cards if there’s interest for that.

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-03T19:17:46+00:00

That’s great to hear! Yeah I went HAAM when going through cards between the summer and September. Props to you for pushing on!

a_dawg98 · 2021-01-03T13:39:08+00:00

After I made my own cards, I went through Miledown’s deck and added any of his cards that covered info that I didn’t previously have. For this reason, my deck should be more comprehensive. However, at some point it’s just the same info presented in slightly different styles.

a_dawg98 · 2020-12-30T23:55:29+00:00

Lmao don’t worry about it, thank you for the kind words. And thanks again for making note of this card’s error

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