Hi. The "features" and "pricing" links no longer work after you click on "Demos" or "What is Spaced Repetition?" links.
Also, it might make sense that the bar holding those links remains visible at the top... or not.
Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
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#12Hi. The "features" and "pricing" links no longer work after you click on "Demos" or "What is Spaced Repetition?" links. Also, it might make sense that the bar holding those links remains visible at the top... or not.
Hi. Thanks for your valuable observation - I have fixed it now :-)
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#13Theory / 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, perhap…
I created a file format designed for sharing data in-between language learning apps (JSON based + signature). It’s not released yet but if someone is interested please reply below. It would be great to have software other than mine using it.
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#14Small 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!
Hi, nice work with this! Another small typo under the "Retain information with Spaced Repetition" header in the first bullet point, effecient -> efficient.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Hi, nice work with this! Another small typo under the "Retain information with Spaced Repetition" header in the first bullet point, effecient -> efficient.
Thanks for spotting the typo! I have fixed it now.
Re: Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool
#16Theory / 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, perhap…
I created a file format designed for sharing data in-between language learning apps (JSON based + signature). It’s not released yet but if someone is interested please reply below. It would be great to have software other than mine using it.
I'm definitely interested.
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#17What is Spaced Repetition? Never heard of it.
It's a flashcard system that schedules the cards to be reviewed based on how new the information is.
A basic system is to review each card after 1,2,4,8,etc days, resetting if you don't recall the answer from the prompt.
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#18Please, do not use white lies on your web.
This is not free to use. This is useless on free. It's like tesla saying that chargers are free to use on front page, then on pricing: but only first 0.1kWh.
this is dark pattern.
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#19Please, do not use white lies on your web. This is not free to use. This is useless on free. It's like tesla saying that chargers are free to use on front page, then on pricing: but only first 0.1kWh. this is dark pattern.
This is a valid point. What do you think would be respectable amount of free cards? - or is having a card limit even the right way to of differentiate between free and premium?
Very interested in hearing your points - i'm totally new to this.
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#20What is Spaced Repetition? Never heard of it.
The very first non-navigation-bar text on the linked site says: "The Next Generation Spaced Repetition Tool to help you Retain More Knowledge: Create memory cards anywhere on the web", which should give some clues. A little lower down there's a link saying "Click here to check out our 5 minute introduction to spaced repetition", linking to ... a brief explanation of spaced repetition and why you might want to use it.
Anyway. The idea is that when you learn something, you are likely to forget it eventually, and that when you _remind_ yourself of something you've learned that postpones the likely forgetting by an amount of time that increases according to how long it was since you learned it. So if you want to learn something and retain it, you should keep reminding yourself just before you would have forgotten. Fortunately, it seems that for most of us the time we remember a thing for is somewhat longer than the time between reminders, which means that learning something this way doesn't take an unreasonable number of reminders before it's lodged in your brain long-term.
So: a spaced repetition system is a thing that helps you learn. You give it a bunch of things you want to learn; it tests you and remembers -- separately for each individual thing -- when you were last tested and how you did. If its algorithm matches your brain reasonably well, a fairly small investment of effort can help you get a lot of stuff imported lastingly into your brain.
The most common use of these things is for learning foreign language vocabulary, but of course that's by no means all you can do with them.