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Re: Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

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Post by mumblemumble »

dhandel wrote: post #4
jameskraus wrote: post #3

Nifty. As an Anki user, I see this as a feature I really wish Anki had. This is an area where I am more than willing to spend money for an excellent product (which Anki strangely fails to capitalize on). Good luck, I hope this grows. Obligatory HN cynacism: I don't think I'll end up using it due to the massive investment I've already made in Anki + switching friction. Plus, it's not open source, so if the service eve…

Thanks James, You can export Anki Flashcards and import them into iDR as recalls. The catch for now is that only .txt format exports work for the time being. Also, in a few weeks we'll offer self-serve export of all of your recalls in a CSV file which then be uploaded into Anki or Quizlet.

Thanks for the update. This is an important feature for me, too, for a different reason. I've discovered that, with Anki, oftentimes the fastest way for me to bulk edit a deck is to export it, manipulate it with a Python script, and then re-import it.

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Post by dhandel »

gnicholas wrote: post #12

Does this work with DRMd content like digital textbooks?

No, it doesn't. Even when we add an EPUB reader in the coming months, it won't open DRM protected files. Unfortunately Amazon and Apple don't offer APIs for their ebook readers. The only solution is copy|paste or screengrabs... very suboptimal.

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Kelamir wrote: post #10
s9w wrote: post #5

Holy webdesign jesus, this one has cookie popups, chat popups, auto-changing black text on dark background, slow animations that get triggered by scrolling. All I want is really Anki with manual intervals. Life would be so good :|

You could try using steps(new cards part) for setting up your own intervals. I don't know how much it is fit for your purposes though. What do you not like about Anki's current scheduling, s9w?

I think the entire theory about the intervals is overcomplicated and too much of an overgeneralization at the same time. If users could just have buttons with "110% of last interval", "+2 days", "1 week" that would be the best way. I've written a web app like that many years ago but js development has since outpaced my motivation to keep up.

Steps is just manual entry of the first intervals, right? That's very static.

Re: Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

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Post by kovek »

This is awesome!! I would like this to be my portal to the web. My current portal to the web is my browser, but it doesn’t allow me to create notes/cards/recalls on youtube videos I watch or on articles I read.

I think it would be good if the main content appears on the center (I see pdfs showing on the right side of the screen).

Re: Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

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Post by markalexander »

aaronmyatt wrote: post #16

Do you plan to enable linking cards to web content? My biggest desire is to create flash cards directly linked to software documentation.

Having spent a lot of time making a similar tool this is pretty difficult. Two issues: (1) highlighting and annotating across (partial) XML with rendered output is very hard without some understanding of the rendering, you can't really just say that a particular highlight is a fixed bounding box or interval; and (2) obviously, web content can change, so even if you could do the above what happens to your annotation highlight from character 5 to 10 when the document shifts?

Personally, I gave up and just converted the web page in question to PDF, and annotated from there. Then you get easy document position markers and no changes over time. I would also be very interested in a system that could do proper webpages natively, though.

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Post by dhandel »

gingerlime wrote: post #6
dhandel wrote: post #2

Hi HN friends, iDoRecall cofounder and 67 y/o entrepreneur here. Today’s version of iDR is a total rewrite of our MVP. iDR began as a digital solution enabling the cognitive science strategies that I used to graduate #1 in my med school class back in the analog 70s [1]. iDR takes spaced-repetition flashcards beyond the bounds of well-known solutions. Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., creator of Coursera’s Learning How to Learn…

Hey David, looks really impressive. And so nice to see some older enterpreneurs out there! Strange that there’s just another spaced repetition show HN just next to this one. What are the odds? I’m a co-founder of Kenhub[0] and we use some spaced repetition techniques in our quizzes. But it’s quite different still. The bigger difference for us is that we create and curate the content. I’m wondering if there’s some opp…

Thanks for the kind words. I just sent an email.

Re: Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

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Post by dhandel »

kovek wrote: post #15

This is awesome!! I would like this to be my portal to the web. My current portal to the web is my browser, but it doesn’t allow me to create notes/cards/recalls on youtube videos I watch or on articles I read. I think it would be good if the main content appears on the center (I see pdfs showing on the right side of the screen).

Thanks for the encouragement. Shortly we will be improving the layout and making the document viewer much wider.

Re: Show HN: Spaced-repetition flashcards linked to your learning materials

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Post by dhandel »

aaronmyatt wrote: post #16

Do you plan to enable linking cards to web content? My biggest desire is to create flash cards directly linked to software documentation.

Currently, you can create a flashcard and paste a URL in the source field. When you practice the flashcard and "turn it over", if you struggled with the anwer, you can click the source URL and it will open in another browser tab.

We do have plans to release browser extensions that will enable you to create flashcards linked to areas of interest in web pages that you are viewing. We will save the URL and a PDF of the page in case the content subsequently changes.

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