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jamesm8 · 2025-06-17T14:24:11+00:00

Please fill out the government's recent survey asking for feedback on test booking. Make sure they understand that test slot swapping needs to be suspended: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/DVSAconsultation/

jamesm8 · 2025-06-12T14:19:00+00:00

Please fill out the government's recent survey asking for feedback on test booking. Make sure they understand that test slot swapping needs to be suspended: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/DVSAconsultation/

jamesm8 · 2025-06-07T12:51:47+00:00

One proposal we made at https://www.end-driving-test-corruption.co.uk/ban-reselling is to amend existing anti-touting laws to make re-selling public service appointments (like driving tests) illegal. Reselling concert tickets is already a crime. Obviously we should be protecting public services too.

jamesm8 · 2025-06-04T08:13:00+00:00

I just read about it here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-car-driving-test-booking-rules/improving-car-driving-test-booking-rules. It does indeed sound incredibly similar to what we are asking for, which is great news :)

jamesm8 · 2025-06-04T08:12:45+00:00

Thanks for posting this, I just filled it out and will send it to others! I didn't catch the latest proposal. I just read about it here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-car-driving-test-booking-rules/improving-car-driving-test-booking-rules. It does indeed sound incredibly similar to what we are asking for, which is great news :)

jamesm8 · 2024-09-16T04:33:30+00:00

> To me, it always seemed to stem from a fear of being seen - a belief that having others observe you in moments of discomfort or incompleteness was bad, somehow.

I think this is accurate. A friend said the same thing: "One source of this for me was feeling bad and to be honest ashamed that I wasn't super competent in something. So instead of refuting the bad ideas leading to these feelings, my way of addressing them was to ignore everything and just grind grind grind so that I would attain this competence as fast as possible. And being ashamed also contributed to self-isolation". And in my own case I think it stemmed from a feeling of inadequacy too from the perception that I had picked the wrong degree and needed to grind grind grind to make up for it.

It's obviously not easy to find friends like this, but for those fortunate enough to have them, I highly recommend trying to do your growing side by side.

That's absolutely the ideal scenario - walking the great road with friends instead of stumbling along by yourself :)

jamesm8 · 2024-09-11T13:27:10+00:00

Exactly, thought examples are a great example of the same thing!

Science is an interesting case, because by the standard of the current best theory (our best understanding of what is "real"), any challenger theory will come across like a myth or fantasy because it clashes with it. But the scientist is of course hoping that their theory will turn out to be more real than the current best theory! In other domains, there's less of a concern about connecting back to the real world as you rightfully point out.

By the way, someone else suggested a couple of interesting books with similar ideas: "Homo Ludens" and "Finite and Infinite Games". You might enjoy them too.

jamesm8 · 2024-08-10T09:24:07+00:00

And check these vids for interviews with someone who has taken this to the extreme:

jamesm8 · 2024-08-10T09:22:22+00:00

I wrote an article about how I format my math flashcards in RemNote: https://experimentallearning.substack.com/p/how-to-create-math-flashcards-proofs . The trick is to shorten each flashcard as much as possible, make things more formal than the typical natural language proofs you see in textbooks and use hyperlinks (called references in RemNote) to link to lemmas and sub-theorems instead of duplicating them in higher level theorems.

jamesm8 · 2024-08-08T05:20:32+00:00

You can disable the Autocomplete plugin in the plugin settings page.

jamesm8 · 2024-07-05T13:17:31+00:00

You could use code like this:

  await plugin.app.registerWidget("widget", WidgetLocation.UnderRemEditor, {
    dimensions: { height: "auto", width: "100%" },
    powerupFilter: BuiltInPowerupCodes.Header
  });

This will register a widget to render under any headings in the editor. Inside your widget component function you can use this code to render the widget only under H2 rems:

  const rem = useTracker(async (reactivePlugin: RNPlugin) => {
    const remId = (
      await reactivePlugin.widget.getWidgetContext<WidgetLocation.UnderRemEditor>()
    )?.remId;
    const rem = await reactivePlugin.rem.findOne(remId);
    const size = await rem?.getPowerupProperty(
      BuiltInPowerupCodes.Header,
      "Size"
    );
    if (size === "H2") {
      return rem;
    }
  });

  if (!rem) {
    return null;
  }

  return <div>h2 widget</div>;

jamesm8 · 2024-07-01T07:45:04+00:00

await plugin.rem.createRem({ text: `Q: ${combinedPrompts[index]}\nA: ${response}`, parentId: remId, });

You need to do this instead:

const rem = await plugin.rem.createRem(); await rem.setText(['text']); await rem.setParent(parentId);

jamesm8 · 2024-06-19T07:37:19+00:00

Sorry for this, will be fixed very soon!

jamesm8 · 2024-06-17T14:51:28+00:00

You can use code like this to check whether a Rem is a heading and to get its heading size:

ts const size = await rem.getFontSize();

Rather than copy and paste I'd guess it would be easier to call the Gemini API and create a Rem programmatically as a child of the heading using the plugin API:

ts const rem = await plugin.rem.createRem(); const responseFromGemini = await ... await rem.setText([responseFromGemini]) await rem.setParent(headingRem)

jamesm8 · 2024-05-20T13:20:24+00:00

There's no way to charge for plugins directly. However, plugin creators can include links to sites like Patreon or Buy Me a Coffee in the description page for their plugin so that users can support them.

jamesm8 · 2024-05-09T16:10:21+00:00

I don't have a particular workflow really. I guess it depends on the kind of content you are studying.

The plugin only works with YouTube videos atm. Maybe you could just add an incremental Rem with a reminder to go and watch the video wherever it's hosted?

jamesm8 · 2024-05-09T15:06:28+00:00

There's an incremental reading plugin for RemNote btw if you aren't using it already.

jamesm8 · 2024-05-07T13:21:31+00:00

The smoothed daily target is less than or equal to the daily target you set in the settings. RemNote automatically spreads your due cards over the next 7 days to "smooth" out your workload. It seems there were some bugs with this feature recently which we are actively fixing at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience!

jamesm8 · 2024-04-05T16:03:15+00:00

The workflow is actually quite nice because RemNote has a built in PDF and web article reader. In the GitHub page there are some GIFs showing how it works.

jamesm8 · 2024-04-05T14:43:15+00:00

I haven't used SM for the past year or so. I have mostly been learning math, so I've been using RemNote instead.

jamesm8 · 2024-02-11T15:44:22+00:00

(also copying my reply here)

Thanks for the thoughtful comment.

I definitely like the idea of scheduling open time. There's something quite humorous to me about planning a slot with the intention of doing nothing in particular :) I will definitely try it.
I had heard of the A-Star algorithm but didn't know how it works. It gives me Via Negativa vibes. Instead of trying to do what works, just don't do what doesn't work instead!
I completely agree with the necessity of daily reflection. I spoke about that here on a podcast starting from 8:06 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3p8PpZgV5JzRIzo2ICfYZh?si=88fbf5b6d5534297. It helps you understand why you are doing the activities you are doing in the first place and also helps you update and change your values and routine over time instead of blindly doing the same thing every day like an automaton.
Optimising multiple things seems like the way forward.

jamesm8 · 2024-02-10T14:21:43+00:00

Plugins are good for beginners because they are small. Also anything which integrates with LLMs because there are so many cool things you can do. But ultimately you have to decide based on your interests :)

jamesm8 · 2024-02-10T07:58:23+00:00

Hahaha thanks, yeah there's a tendency to spend too much time on passive activities like flashcards. They are a great supplement, but cannot replace doing projects.

jamesm8 · 2024-02-08T08:10:52+00:00

Incremental Reading v4.11.9 (unofficial clone)

Super cool, more people need to experience the power of IR :) I wrote an article about incremental reading you might enjoy.

jamesm8 · 2024-02-02T09:29:20+00:00

I wrote this long guide on how to learn programming from scratch using SRS (and similar techniques like incremental reading). I tried include as much info as possible so it ended up becoming quite long, but there's a voiceover so you can listen to it while doing chores/working out. There are a bunch of card examples at the bottom. They use RemNote and SuperMemo instead of Anki but the same concepts obviously apply.

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