Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
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Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#2Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that.
So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes. I also built a chrome extension so you can add memory cards instantly whether you are reading pdfs or wikipedia.
I learned so much coding, like rendering latex instantly in a chrome extension, or the painful complexity of wysiwyg editors. I ended up using a vue based framework called tiptap. It works as a wrapper on top of prosemirror. (https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap...)
Anyways, I would love to hear what you guys think about this project!
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#3Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that. So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but s…
Nice.
I would not pay for this but might buy it as an app on my phone.
I would be more likely to buy a subscription of you had a ton of decks on it like memrise does.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#4Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that. So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but s…
Nice. I would not pay for this but might buy it as an app on my phone. I would be more likely to buy a subscription of you had a ton of decks on it like memrise does.
Yes, that is a valid point! From my experience the card creating process is also really valuable and forces you to distill the information down to something concrete.
But I totally get you, that for something like learning a language it would be nice to have some predefined decks.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#5Just to let you know, clicking on "Features" or "Pricing" doesn't work if you are not on the home page. It can't find the anchors which are located on the home page.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#6Just to let you know, clicking on "Features" or "Pricing" doesn't work if you are not on the home page. It can't find the anchors which are located on the home page.
Hey man thanks! still a lot of learning to be done on the frontend..
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#7Small nitpick: your main headline on the site has a typo in the word 'knowledge'.
That said it looks interesting, but for me personally the only big reason to switch away from Anki would be more keyboard controls so I don't need to switch to the mouse and back for some menu interactions. Then again syntax highlighting in code blocks does sound like a neat feature for some situations.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#8Small nitpick: your main headline on the site has a typo in the word 'knowledge'. That said it looks interesting, but for me personally the only big reason to switch away from Anki would be more keyboard controls so I don't need to switch to the mouse and back for some menu interactions. Then again syntax highlighting in code blocks does sound like a neat feature for some situations.
Thanks for your thoughts and very valuable nitpick (I have fixed it now). I definitely agree that keyboard controls are very essential to the card making process, and I will look into that!
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#9Theory / 2 Cents: don't just work on a GUI for spaced repetition cards, invent an open file format for spaced repetition (perhaps an XML plus an schema, or a JSON based file format, a subset of HTML or markdown, etc...).
The idea is that you create a file format spec, perhaps even some open source libraries to operate on the file format. And then you sell a really nice GUI for editing that (perhaps a web page, perhaps a mobile app, perhaps both?).
If your format is good people will use it, perhaps create new editors for it: if you have competition on GUIs it means you succeeded :-). Some people may be willing to pay for a hosted version or an app, others will likely host it themselves, I'm sure people would donate to you, the main developer if that was the case.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#10What is Spaced Repetition? Never heard of it.