Your preferred Note structure for definitions?

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I’m wondering what are y’all’s preferred Note structure for definitions. I’m wondering whether my system is sustainable, because I’ve transitioned across several structures over the past couple years, and, each time I discover a much better structure it’s very time-consuming to update all my old Notes. So, I’m gathering ideas from y’all to help ensure there’s not some obvious flaw in my latest structure.

I use the default Cloze Note type, and I typically start with this structure in the Text field:

In DOMAIN:

Headword/headphrase:
{{c1::}}

Good (set of) definition(s):

For example:

In null-hypothesis significance testing:

Headword/headphrase:
{{c3::{{c2::false-discovery rate}} (acronym: {{c1::FDR}})}}

Good (set of) definition(s):
{{c6::The expected proportion of {{c5::rejected null-hypotheses}} (within a family of null-hypotheses) that are {{c4::false rejections}}.}}

Often, I’ll include in-text citations within the definition, with corresponding entries in the References field (which I added to all of my Note types).

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Hey, fellow struggler!

I tried 4-5 ways to deal with definitions. So far the best way seems to breake it into a banch of questions, which i should be able to answer when i know the definition, and to add a card with definition itself while marking the parts of it, which I should know from the questions - these are the parts which I don’t have to answer correctly when testing this card.

For example:

Front: FRD - Whats the full name?

Back: false-discovery rate

Front: FRD - What is in the denominator?

Back: rejected null-hypotheses

Front: FRD - What is in the nominator?

Back: false rejections

Front: FRD - define

Back: {{false-discovery rate}}. The expected proportion of {{rejected null-hypotheses}} (within a family of null-hypotheses) that are {{false rejections}}. (Ignore mistakes in the brackets)

I use it for a long definitions. Often times the set of questions depends on what I forget when working with the fulldefinition card.

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It’s good work, but it takes time.
When I was studying, I’d analyze it: why this word, what it means, and what language it’s from. Why the second word is here and not somewhere else. And so on, analyzing it, you realize that each word is in the definition for a reason. Now you have computers and so on…maybe AI could do the same, but your own work is certainly more useful.

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