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SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by tshanmu »

how do they make money? aka, am I the product? :D

Saw this in the website:

> Note: All current functionality will remain free.

> Premium functions are available with a monthly or yearly subscription.

> With SoYouLearn premium you will be able to learn even faster and better.

edit: add the free bit from the website and formatting

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by notheguyouthink »

This is cool! I've been (very) slowly designing a self hosted solution similar to this!

I have far too many things ranging from professional to personal to menial that I need to jot down. A lot of it I want to remember, some of it I just want to be able to look up, but ultimate there's just far too much information in my life and I need a personal Google.

I'm not sure this product is my exact needs, but I'm really happy to see more people thinking about personal knowledge/data retention. It seems so important to me!

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Post by AndreRauh »

Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years.

A few key differences:

- A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request.

- Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else.

- You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio)

- Efficiently add bulk audio to a course

- A super fast UI (it's an SPA)

I have a few ideas for premium which (as far as I know) would bring features that don't exist yet for any spaced repetition platform:

- Prioritized learning (learn the most pressing ones)

- In advance learning (You'll be gone for the weekend, but it's Friday and you have 1h time: You can prelearn "long term" flash cards that'd come around over the weekend).

Also for some tech background: Frontend is pure Clojurescript + Datascript. Backend is Clojure, Cassandra, Datomic, Elasticsearch. I'd use the tech stack again, hands down.

The best introduction is the video at the bottom of the landing page it show all the features. There are only few courses right now so early adopters should (hopefully) be willing to create their own courses.

Questions welcome.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by AndreRauh »

mikhuang wrote: post #5

Stuck on creating account, iOS , it just keeps spinning

Sorry to hear that. I know it's a bad excuse but: I don't own any Apple products so I haven't tested IPhone or iPad. Though I did test a MacOS VM with Safari. Can you try to use firefox for now? I'll try to borrow an iPhone soon and debug the problem in the next few days. Sorry about that.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by aw3c2 »

AndreRauh wrote: post #6

Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…

> Wikipedia-like database

Where can I download the freely-licensed data?

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