Trick for Oxford Cards
I got an email by John, one of reader, last week. I think this information is useful for all people in U.S. Thanks, John! :)
I am in the US and want to try and make the Oxford Cards work. I think by using a simple trick we can get the index cards to work reasonably well. Here is the trick:
a) Eventhrough the Oxford Cards are randomly cut, they are ideally a regular grid. This means that if we always write our cards with the smallest gap between the edge and the first line to the left then the grids will at most be 1/2 a grid spacing off. Statistically, they will be much less.
b) Instead of tagging every column like you can do with the your cards, I will use 2 columns for the tag. If I “eyeball” a correction (or even if I don’t), then the card to card jitter in the column marking should be small to distinguish the columns.
