Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
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Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#2Hi Hackernews,
I created Spacedtime because I'm known to have a horrible memory. Maybe people are kidding but I wanted to change that. There are flashcard apps out there but I wanted to create one that is focused on creating cards for my personal memories. My personal goal is to store and recall all that is dear to me.
Given the personal nature, I do plan on spending a lot of my time on protecting the user's information. Today, Spacedtime does not have a server and stores all information locally. The command-line app stores information in a local JSON file and the web app stores into Local Storage. However, I'm not sure what is the best user-friendly way to go about the encryption layer and how it should be applied.
I've posted to Product Hunt, [Lobste.rs](http://lobste.rs) and Indiehackers so far. I've been saving my self from posting to HN till now. It is still an MVP but at least it is not the first version :). I've been pretty aggressive in publishing my work.
I'm looking forward to everyone's feedback!
Best,
-James
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#3Hi there!
A couple of notes :)
* It seemed to me that the cli and the web app would be related. I had to come read your comment to realize the cli doesn't read from the web app (I also had to come here to realize it was stored locally).
* Once I started creating questions, there was no way to "log out" to get back to the splash page. So that means I couldn't see the npm install command
Good luck!
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#4Nice, and thanks for making the CLI version, because for such personal info (some of which might be security questions for a bank!) I'd rather not use the web site.
On the website however it seems to make it impossible to go back. Clinking the browser back button gets stuck in a loop after you click "Start Remembering Now"
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#5It looks like Anki cards. I also value spaced repetition to help me store valuable facts in my long term memory.
I personally use my Todoist for that (Project called "Anki" where every todo is a question and the answer is in the comments. And I can manage intervals by using the task scheduling feature to have them appear later (depending on the ease to remind the answer).
But I like the simplicity of your app and the logo is kinda cool also. +1 for the command line interface. Good idea.
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#6Hi there! A couple of notes :) * It seemed to me that the cli and the web app would be related. I had to come read your comment to realize the cli doesn't read from the web app (I also had to come here to realize it was stored locally). * Once I started creating questions, there was no way to "log out" to get back to the splash page. So that means I couldn't see the npm install command Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback. I will be adding a api connected version in the future but will work on making that clear.
There isn’t a login so I technically cannot log you out right now. Either way a menu in the app would be helpful to direct users back to the homepage.
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#7Nice, and thanks for making the CLI version, because for such personal info (some of which might be security questions for a bank!) I'd rather not use the web site. On the website however it seems to make it impossible to go back. Clinking the browser back button gets stuck in a loop after you click "Start Remembering Now"
Thank you. Will take a look and fix.
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#8It looks like Anki cards. I also value spaced repetition to help me store valuable facts in my long term memory. I personally use my Todoist for that (Project called "Anki" where every todo is a question and the answer is in the comments. And I can manage intervals by using the task scheduling feature to have them appear later (depending on the ease to remind the answer). But I like the simplicity of your app and the…
Awesome idea. I did have a chrome extension as a future feature I wanted to work on.
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#9Anki 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?
Re: Show HN: SpacedTime – Remember the important things in your life
#10Anki 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've actually been a long time user of Anki and definitely thought about contributing to them. However, I'm personally unfamiliar with their stack and given the simplicity of a flashcard app, it was easier to start here.
However it probably is worth considering an import of Anki cards in the future. For now though, I'm focused on cards with answers you'd only know.