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    Comment #39811558

    Not quite the same thing, but Vocabsieve (disclosure:my project) can read your KOReader lookup history to generate Anki cards with context and audio. I also feel like reading in yo…

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    Comment #39572477

    An Ansible playbook running on a relatively cheap hetzner box. In general bridges require you to self-host a homeserver. A federated homeserver will need 4GB of RAM at least and 8G…

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    Comment #39572198

    From the perspective of the users, Matrix has the "best" experience since it supports bridge controlling user accounts, so all accounts look like real users. Currently the largest …

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    Comment #39570800

    You can use this Ansible playbook. It worked well for me for bridging Discord and Telegram, among other things, running off a Hetzner box. https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-dock…

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    Comment #39570758

    A lot of people use FOSS because they value control and self-ownership. Discord is the antithesis to that, being controlled by an external entity which places itself in a privilege…

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    Comment #39570730

    I maintain a semi-popular project [1] with a support chat which is bridged between Matrix, Telegram, and Discord. The decision to bridge it to Discord was made having thought long …

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    Comment #39570725

    I maintain a semi-popular project [1] with a support chat which is bridged between Matrix, Telegram, and Discord. The decision to bridge it to Discord was made having thought long …

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    Comment #39007506

    If you have better tooling, you can add cards way faster. My project ( https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve/ ) is a tool to help you make sentence cards nearly effortles…

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    Comment #39007473

    Shameless plug for my tool https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve/ It can do sentence card creation, ereader imports, and vocab tracking, among other things.

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    Comment #38876938

    SEEKING VOLUNTEERS Project name: FreeLanguageTools / VocabSieve Github: https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve Languages: Python for the main project, one of the Android l…

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    Comment #38585451

    Good luck packaging that on Windows though. PyQt generally works better if you need cross-platform support.

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    Comment #38585403

    As a developer for a Python GUI application [1], I think the biggest problem with using Python for desktop applications is the packaging. All existing tooling for creating a distri…

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    Comment #38064456

    For those learning other languages (works best for European languages), my open source tool VocabSieve [1] does something quite similar (it is a lemmatizing tool unlike many common…

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    Comment #38064398

    My somewhat similar project VocabSieve [1] is intended to make lookups and making Anki flashcards very easy. Among other things, you can import highlighted words from ereaders and …

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    Comment #31299926

    I also created a somewhat similar tool [1] for quickly making Anki cards when reading foreign language texts. It's not electron, but rather PyQt, so it conforms to your system them…

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    Comment #31299874

    (Shameless plug) Only marginally similar (though I imagine you can adapt it to the same purpose), but I also created a GUI tool [1] for quickly making Anki cards when reading forei…

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    Show HN: VocabSieve, a tool for vocabulary acquisition through text

    I made this tool for learning vocabulary while reading. All the other alternatives I've seen are either proprietary, too difficult to set up, or lack features I need.