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Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by Horita »

jplayer01 wrote: post #33
kabacha wrote: post #9

Anki flash cards (floss) do use spaced time learning algorithms that are also easily adjustable to personal preference. Anki has native mobile/desktop, cli and web clients. The big community also provides shared decks and vast plugin ecosystem like auto text-to-speech and imagery. I haven't seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead? https://github.com/ankitects/anki

Anki is a very big and complex project. From what I've heard and seen, it's a mess and the only person who groks it is the main developer. I get why most people are unwilling to contribute to Anki. I've thought about it myself and I decided against it, preferring to tinker on my own personal flashcard project. It's also a very old project where it's hard to enact change that you might want. So if you have a different…

In what way is the Anki project a mess?

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by Horita »

anorakoverflow wrote: post #36
kabacha wrote: post #9

Anki flash cards (floss) do use spaced time learning algorithms that are also easily adjustable to personal preference. Anki has native mobile/desktop, cli and web clients. The big community also provides shared decks and vast plugin ecosystem like auto text-to-speech and imagery. I haven't seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead? https://github.com/ankitects/anki

I used Anki extensively a few years ago when studying a new language at uni and it helped me a lot, but I just installed it again and not much has changed. It was clunky then and its flaws are showing even more now. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but even something as simple as loading an image from a URL, even though it uses a webview for the cards anyway, simply doesn’t work. Why not take advantage of the web techno…

Anki has so many new addon compare couple of years ago and it get updates every week if you test the beta version of the project.

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by kabacha »

jplayer01 wrote: post #33
kabacha wrote: post #9

Anki flash cards (floss) do use spaced time learning algorithms that are also easily adjustable to personal preference. Anki has native mobile/desktop, cli and web clients. The big community also provides shared decks and vast plugin ecosystem like auto text-to-speech and imagery. I haven't seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead? https://github.com/ankitects/anki

Anki is a very big and complex project. From what I've heard and seen, it's a mess and the only person who groks it is the main developer. I get why most people are unwilling to contribute to Anki. I've thought about it myself and I decided against it, preferring to tinker on my own personal flashcard project. It's also a very old project where it's hard to enact change that you might want. So if you have a different…

> Anki is a very big and complex project

But it's not. Just look at the source code for card[1]. It's modern, fully type hinted python3 code, you don't even need to know python to understand big chunk of it.

1 - https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/car...

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by samovar_booth »

XFrequentist wrote: post #45
samovar_booth wrote: post #40

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Very cool! Do folks feel like there would be value in a hosted service that provides a backend for spaced-repetition apps? It's a bit niche, but feels like there would be demand for a service that would let folks build memorization apps without having to manage their own spaced repetition implementation.

I think it would be valuable, I've actually had this idea (but not the competence/bandwidth to actually build it, alas). It could become a platform for courses built around SRS, or learning materials like Michael Nielsen's mnemonic media: https://numinous.productions/ttft/ .

Wow, thanks for that link, that's an amazing essay.

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by uptownhr »

checker wrote: post #43
kmorgh wrote: post #32

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How about 3rd party storage through the users own dropbox, gdrive, 1drive. Then it's still sort of self hosted Also easy to use same data across devices. Not sure on the syncing strategy/performance

Draw.io does storage federation to OneDrive and others pretty well.

i'll have to look into the drive api. If easy enough, this sounds like a plan.

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by osdiab »

uptownhr wrote: post #28
osdiab wrote: post #26

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Given that I’ve wanted to make apps for learning languages but always get lost in the weeds of various spaced repetition algorithms - would love this kind of open source resource. If anyones interested in making this kind of thing, I’d love to chip in. For example I notice it’s really common for spaced repetition algorithms to really easily allow me to shoot myself in the face by learning too much up front and then d…

I can tell you've put some thought into this :) I'd love to contribute towards a repo to work on this.

If I get started on one I’ll let you know!

Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life

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Post by osdiab »

osdiab wrote: post #56
uptownhr wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you've put some thought into this :) I'd love to contribute towards a repo to work on this.

If I get started on one I’ll let you know!

FYI I started an empty repo on Github and made some RFC issues to collect ideas for what this can be - would love if you guys have any thoughts!

https://github.com/osdiab/libremember/issues

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