Mnemonic medium prompts are interleaved into the reading experience

A Quizlet-style implementation of the idea described in The mnemonic medium supplies expert-authored prompts to remove the burden of prompt-writing would deliver the prompts separately from the text itself. For instance, perhaps you read a text, and then some days later you’re quizzed on its contents. Or perhaps the prompts are supplied at the end of an article, after you’ve read it at all. Our design for the Mnemonic medium differs from these approaches by interleaving the prompts into the reading experience at a finer granularity.

Some consequences (potential, intended, observed):

• More broadly, Adjunct questions improve comprehension of related but untested content. We didn’t do anything to test this in QC.
• The mnemonic medium may push readers to read more slowly and attentively
• Interleaved mnemonic medium prompts uncover reading comprehension lapses, sometimes unpleasantly
• The mnemonic medium gives structure to normally-atomized spaced repetition memory prompts/Interleaved practice may help anchor the prompts in the narrative
• Mnemonic medium prompts signal what the author finds important
• Interleaved mnemonic medium prompts promote a feeling of safety
• Mnemonic medium review sets create natural breaks in the reading experience
• Offers a more natural opportunity for The mnemonic medium should give readers control over the prompts they collect

A dependency of this design decision: The mnemonic medium’s design relies on light-weight prompts.

Some questions:

• How should mnemonic medium review sets be spaced in the text?