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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 AndreRauh »

faitswulff wrote: post #49
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…

I noticed that there are no Chinese flash cards, which seems like a pretty major omission. While looking into adding some, I was overwhelmed by the options presented: https://slack-files.com/T02TG6LJ5-F99RX9799-a147044b72 The app seems incredibly responsive, but adding a card could be easier. And are you planning on adding Chinese language flash cards in the near future?

The entire cedict.org Chinese-English dictionary is available on SYL (it's over 115,000 flash cards) including traditional chinese (I want to do Japanese very soon). Make sure to watch the video on the landing page, it goes into a lot of the hidden features that I offer. And thanks, I worked A LOT on optimizing the performance of the SPA (size and speed).

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#52

Post by faitswulff »

AndreRauh wrote: post #51
faitswulff wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed that there are no Chinese flash cards, which seems like a pretty major omission. While looking into adding some, I was overwhelmed by the options presented: https://slack-files.com/T02TG6LJ5-F99RX9799-a147044b72 The app seems incredibly responsive, but adding a card could be easier. And are you planning on adding Chinese language flash cards in the near future?

The entire cedict.org Chinese-English dictionary is available on SYL (it's over 115,000 flash cards) including traditional chinese (I want to do Japanese very soon). Make sure to watch the video on the landing page, it goes into a lot of the hidden features that I offer. And thanks, I worked A LOT on optimizing the performance of the SPA (size and speed).

Ah yeah, then I must have run afoul of some UX issues. There are a few other UX oddities like the wording on "exploring" cards - I think I was looking for either a global search or specifically the word "search." And the fact that I couldn't find the Chinese flash cards without watching the video on the landing page seems like it's another UX hotspot.

I'll check it out again later. Thanks for the hard work.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#53

Post by AndreRauh »

faitswulff wrote: post #50
AndreRauh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No there is not. I have kind of the feeling that Anki users are tough to convince to switch to an online platform (judging by comments I've received so far). It's tough since you'd have to find a corresponding flash card for each flash card in Anki. But if there was enough interest I'd probably see what I can do. Maybe just provide a JS API so users can write an import script? Just a thought, not a promise.

Uploading Anki decks would be nice just to grow the corpus of cards available on the system.

There is actually a CSV import at "Create flash cards" in SYL. Obviously no pictures/audio importing possible. But it's nice for some bulk data.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#54

Post by misiti3780 »

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…

Which version of the spacing algorithm are using ?

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#55

Post by AndreRauh »

faitswulff wrote: post #52
AndreRauh wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The entire cedict.org Chinese-English dictionary is available on SYL (it's over 115,000 flash cards) including traditional chinese (I want to do Japanese very soon). Make sure to watch the video on the landing page, it goes into a lot of the hidden features that I offer. And thanks, I worked A LOT on optimizing the performance of the SPA (size and speed).

Ah yeah, then I must have run afoul of some UX issues. There are a few other UX oddities like the wording on "exploring" cards - I think I was looking for either a global search or specifically the word "search." And the fact that I couldn't find the Chinese flash cards without watching the video on the landing page seems like it's another UX hotspot. I'll check it out again later. Thanks for the hard work.

UX is not my strength, for years before this I was doing fulltime math + MATLAB :). But it's improving! Yes, it was even worse than it is now not too long ago :o

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#56

Post by faitswulff »

AndreRauh wrote: post #55
faitswulff wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yeah, then I must have run afoul of some UX issues. There are a few other UX oddities like the wording on "exploring" cards - I think I was looking for either a global search or specifically the word "search." And the fact that I couldn't find the Chinese flash cards without watching the video on the landing page seems like it's another UX hotspot. I'll check it out again later. Thanks for the hard work.

UX is not my strength, for years before this I was doing fulltime math + MATLAB :). But it's improving! Yes, it was even worse than it is now not too long ago :o

You're doing well. 加油！

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#57

Post by desireco42 »

salimmadjd wrote: post #33
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…

Hopefully my use case is useful to you. I'm a heavy user of Duolingo. Been trying to teach myself Russian for the past 2-3 years. Almost use it on daily bases (I have missed a few days here and there by accident or when I had no connection). Usually my repeat usage is anywhere from 20 days to now 143 consecutive days. My biggest frustration with Duolingo (Russian language) is that none of the grammar rules are explai…

One of my complaints on DuoLingo was that there was no Russian, I am glad thay added it. I am learning Spanish and could use some grammar explanation for sure.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#58

Post by _xgw »

salimmadjd wrote: post #33
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…

Hopefully my use case is useful to you. I'm a heavy user of Duolingo. Been trying to teach myself Russian for the past 2-3 years. Almost use it on daily bases (I have missed a few days here and there by accident or when I had no connection). Usually my repeat usage is anywhere from 20 days to now 143 consecutive days. My biggest frustration with Duolingo (Russian language) is that none of the grammar rules are explai…

Have you tried Memrise or something simpler such as Anki?

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#59

Post by tyleralves »

Looks cool, wish there was a Swift course. Maybe I'll make some cards as I go.

Here's a bug: Your search uses regular expressions without validating them.

1. Go to "https://www.soyoulearn.com/app/#/cards/search/"

2. Type: c++

3. The autocomplete errors and page goes blank

4. Inspector Console: "SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /c++/: Nothing to repeat"

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

#60

Post by AndreRauh »

misiti3780 wrote: post #54
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…

Which version of the spacing algorithm are using ?

My own custom one actually. I wanna get more data however to improve upon it. Right now I don't claim that it's better (or worse) than the existing ones.
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