Trialled by Daniel Zuboff

Strategy at Loomery

I don’t know abut you but for me it’s a perpetual struggle to remember what I’ve read. As I look through the books I’ve finished on my Kindle, I only remember the vague outlines of quite a few of them. Considering that reading a book, or even a long Wikipedia page is a big time commitment, I’d ideally want to make sure I’m retaining that information and enabling what I’ve just learnt to link up with the concepts already in my brain.

Imagine you want to remember the details of a long document you’ve prepared before a meeting with a client, or you’d like to brush up on the ins and outs of a company that you’re going to be dealing with. How about really absorbing an interesting article on strategy you’ve just read, or actually learning and retaining useful things about the state of the world from the news?

Wisdolia is an extension for Google Chrome that helps the information you consume online stick for good. It uses GPT to generate flashcards with questions and answers for whatever webpage you’re on, unlocking the power of spaced repetition to firmly cement those pesky concepts or facts that seem to elude you when you’re prompted in a conversation.

The extension works on webpages as you’d expect, but also pdf’s and even Youtube videos. Let’s give it a shot with a relatively short Wikipedia article.

I was exploring the area around our Holborn office today and I found myself walking through two Inns of Court. I’ve always wanted to learn more about them so lets try using Wisdolia on their Wikipedia article.

From a moderately sized-article, Wisdolia managed to generate 22 flashcards in total. More than enough to fully intrench all of that info in your mind. It also remembers those questions when you next visit the site, which is very handy.

So the extension looks like this when you click on it. A banner drops down on the right hand side of the screen, and then it takes a few seconds for the AI to process the text and generate flashcards. As you scroll down, more and more are generated until all of the article has been combed through.

On the left you can see the questions, and on the right the answers.