Flashcards on PDF (Grok style)

#1

I want to take flashcards on a pdf textbook and I am looking for the best approach to do so.

Those that read Grok TW can appreciate that whenever you don’t remember the answer of a flashcard just with one click you can get the ebook source info and context in which the flashcard was written (required feature).

Sure I could copy sections of the pdf and paste them into tiddlers building a similar structure as Grok TW, but that seems time consuming and tedious…

So ideas and alternative approaches are welcome :slight_smile:

#2

I have tried this pdf macro by @telumire Open tiddler containing pdf (canonical_uri) at specific page? aka. Passing info to opening tiddler - #4 by telumire

It will create a button which when clicked takes to the corresponding page in the pdf.

And I used tiddlyclip pdf sub plug in to clip from pdf…buggyj/tiddlyclip-plugin · Discussions · GitHub .Search this GitHub discussion for pdf. I can provide the configuration I use of you are interested.

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#3

it is possible to open pdfs at sections (the links can be copied from the pdf document outline in firefox, or tiddlyclip can create these tiddlers)

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#4

Thanks for the insights, I post the solution I will stick with in case someone finds it useful.

Requirements:

  1. Avoid to convert PDFs to Tiddlers format.
  2. Take flashcards that link to PDFs specific page in wich context is relevant.

Steps:

  1. host the pdf so is reachable via a public url, for example (https://share-eric.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/SHARE_Working_Paper/SHARE_WP_87-2023.pdf)
  2. create flashcards on tiddlywiki using Tiddlyremember pluggin(notice that #page is used to locate the relevant PDF section):

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  1. Do reviews on Anki and acces “context” links when you need more context.

video on how the reviewing flashcards process looks like on iPhone:
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