How to Use Lattics for Card-Based Note-Taking and Efficient Professional Learning

As a knowledge management tool built on card-based note-taking, Lattics helps you build a structured and connected knowledge network when studying fields such as medicine, economics/finance, law, and psychology. This guide uses these four disciplines to explain concrete workflows, with a special focus on Lattics flashcards for learning support.

1. Core logic: from isolated notes to a knowledge network

Traditional linear notes often become information silos. Lattics encourages you to make knowledge atomic, tagged, and linked. Each core concept, case, or theory can become an independent card, and bidirectional links help you build your own knowledge graph.

2. Discipline-specific use cases

1) Medicine: build a chain from fundamentals to clinical practice

• Anatomy/physiology cards: set each organ system (for example, “hepatic portal venous system”) as a main card, then add sub-cards for:

  • Structural features (with images if needed)
  • Physiological functions
  • Related diseases (linked to pathology cards)

• Disease card template:

  Title: Alzheimer's Disease
  Tags: #NeurodegenerativeDisease #Dementia
  Content:
  - Pathological features: beta-amyloid deposition, neurofibrillary tangles
  - Clinical presentation: memory loss, stages of cognitive decline
  - Diagnostic criteria: NIA-AA criteria (link to diagnostic-criteria card)
  - Medications: cholinesterase inhibitors (link to pharmacology card)
  

• Knowledge linking: in a “cholinergic system” card, add reverse links to all related diseases to form a neuroscience knowledge network.

2) Economics/finance: connect theory with real-world data

• Concept cards: for example, “quantitative easing”
  • Core mechanism (central bank asset purchases)
  • Theoretical basis (linked to Keynesian liquidity preference theory)
  • Historical cases (for example, post-2008 Federal Reserve actions, with charts)
• Model cards: for example, “Black-Scholes option pricing model”
  • Formula derivation (LaTeX or screenshots)
  • Assumptions and limitations
  • Links to empirical studies (for example, abstracts discussing real-world deviations)
• Real-time data cards: create a “macroeconomic indicators” card set and regularly update CPI, PMI, and other indicators linked to related analytical models.

3) Law: connect cases and statutes in 3D

• Statute cards: for example, Article 20 of the Criminal Law (justifiable defense)
  • Full legal text
  • Breakdown of legal elements (structured list)
  • Linked judicial interpretations (for example, guiding cases from the Supreme People's Court)
• Case cards: for example, the “Yu Huan case” and “Kunshan self-defense case”
  • Case summary
  • Core controversy
  • Judgment essentials
  • Links to related statute cards, plus tags such as “similar cases”
• Viewpoint cards: collect competing scholarly views on “limits of self-defense” and build opposing argument clusters.

4) Psychology: integrate theories and experimental evidence

• Theory cards: for example, “cognitive dissonance theory”
  • Proposer: Leon Festinger (linked to a person card)
  • Core proposition
  • Classic experiment: the 1959 “boring task study” (summary plus critique)
• Experimental paradigm cards: for example, “Stanford prison experiment”
  • Method design
  • Ethical controversy
  • Follow-up studies (for example, BBC prison study, with comparison links)
• Application cards: link the “commitment and consistency principle” to cross-domain cards in marketing and behavioral design.

3. Key capability: flashcards in detail

Flashcards are the key way Lattics turns notes into memory tools, especially for disciplines that require intensive recall.

1) Creating flashcards

• Automatic generation: enter the flashcard view, select a project, and articles in the project outline can be converted into flashcards automatically.
• Q&A design:
  • Front: a question or term (for example, “Explain the Keynesian liquidity trap”)
  • Back: detailed answer or explanation (can include charts and formulas)
• Learning feedback: mark each item as “mastered” or “needs strengthening”; items marked as mastered will be shown less frequently by the adaptive review algorithm.

2) Discipline-specific flashcard strategies

• Medicine: create a “pharmacology flashcard set”
  • Front: generic drug name (for example, “Atropine”)
  • Back: mechanism, clinical use, adverse effects, contraindications
• Economics: create a “formula flashcard set”
  • Front: formula name (for example, “Fisher equation”)
  • Back: mathematical expression, variable meanings, applicability conditions
• Law: create an “elements flashcard set”
  • Front: legal concept (for example, “good-faith acquisition”)
  • Back: four legal elements (can be split into sub-flashcards)
• Psychology: create an “experiment flashcard set”
  • Front: experiment name
  • Back: researcher, year, method, conclusion, significance

3) Intelligent review algorithm

• Based on the forgetting curve: the system dynamically adjusts the next review time according to your mastery level.
• Interleaved review: mix flashcards from different disciplines or themes to improve discrimination and consolidation.

4. Recommended high-efficiency workflow

1. Daily input: turn new knowledge points into atomic cards during study sessions and add initial tags.
2. Weekly linking: spend about 30 minutes each week browsing cards, creating new links, and merging duplicate concepts.
3. Daily flashcards: use fragmented time to review 10-15 flashcards per day.
4. Topic output: when one topic reaches a critical mass (for example, 20 cards on “monetary policy”), synthesize them into a review article in Lattics to internalize knowledge.

5. Advanced tips

• Templatization: build templates for each knowledge type (for example, diseases, statutes, experiments) to keep structure consistent.
• Graph usage: review the global graph regularly to discover overlooked relationships (for example, psychology’s “conformity” and economics’ “herding effect”).

By combining Lattics card networks with flashcard review, you can build a solid professional knowledge system and convert short-term memory into long-term mastery through active recall and spaced repetition. In essence, this method shifts learning from passive intake to active construction, connection, and consolidation.