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I'm afraid I feel this is kind of missing the point. I assert that you will spend the time coming up with how to remember a thing; the question is whether you choose to do that at card construction time (easiest, because you've got all the context available to you of the thing you're trying to remember), or ad-hoc during review time. Creating a card is not just writing down some text (or, worse, copy-and-pasting it s…
While I applaud the creator of this app, I’ve found the analog way most effective and fulfilling. I find it develops my brain instead of developing something or someone else.
I opt for the hard way. The slow way. Paper and pen and, a lot of whiteout rollers.
People think I’m crazy but my office is lined with a wall of 4x6” notecard filing cabinets. All cards linked with individual branched id’s (I’d dare call it that term starting with a Z but the explanation of such term has been warped and morphed into something it is not. Which is why I dare not mention it. All but one first-page google result explains it wrong). While I applaud the creator of this app, I’ve found the…
It looks like a very well-done app and I agree that Anki can be clunky but I don’t worry about it disappearing and taking years of work with it. I really do wish you luck but for me at least it’s a high bar to cross.
I’m very wary of putting my flashcards (about 25k in a bunch of decks stretching back nearly 20 years now) in something that either 1) I own fully (I’ve bought the software and it will work even if your company doesn’t); or 2) at least provide full-fidelity exports of not just the content but also the repetition history. It looks like a very well-done app and I agree that Anki can be clunky but I don’t worry about it…
People think I’m crazy but my office is lined with a wall of 4x6” notecard filing cabinets. All cards linked with individual branched id’s (I’d dare call it that term starting with a Z but the explanation of such term has been warped and morphed into something it is not. Which is why I dare not mention it. All but one first-page google result explains it wrong). While I applaud the creator of this app, I’ve found the…
I completely agree about using pen and paper for learning and organizing my life. I have a weekly wall planner made of sticky notes and it’s so much more fulfilling than poking around a calendar app to see my week outlined in a two square foot section of my office wall. But for those of us who are curious about your process, could you please tell us what the Z word is and link to your recommended resource?
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questions: - What is the business model? - any (detailed) info about the "data exporting" functions? - Offline use is possible? - Any API expected? ( creating 3rd party tools ) Thanks!
No monetization right now - we have some revenue streams that will let us keep the core app free. Freemium might happen in the future for niche features (e.g. Improved TTS / GPT-3 Flashcard Generation). No data exporting yet. We plan to add CSV/PDF exports in the next month. Offline mode is not possible yet - it will be within a couple of months. Public API + Extendability is 100% planned. If you're interested in dev…
For example, rule four here https://zorbi.cards/making-good-flashcards/ tells you not to make difficult to answer flashcards. And then the rest of the examples all over the site are all difficult to answer cards. Maybe not now, but in a year or two from now.
I see that you wrote a page that ostensibly compares it to Anki[1], but it doesn't tell me anything. You say that it's easy to use, but does it also support all of the features that Anki has? You say that "you won't have to worry about settings or addons", but settings are there for a reason (because people have different needs), and does your tool subsume all of the functionality of all of the Anki addons that people made? You say that "we release new features every week", but where's the list of features that have been recently added, and how does the feature-set compare with Anki?
I want a better tool than Anki, but you have to show me that it's actually better. Otherwise, you're not going to win over either the Anki users or the Quizlet users.
What does this do that Anki doesn't? I really don't get the thought process if releasing a product that competes versus free software and does _less_
The feature checklist is only a part why people use a product. I didn't try Zorbi yet but I tried Anki a few times and I simply hate its interface. Yes, it has all the features but it is far too clunky and bothersome to use for me. Zorbi in contrast looks like it has a easy, beautiful UI that I can actually use with joy.
Yes, features aren't the only reason why people use a product, but some people (me, and many others here) do mainly use a product for its features. The lack of a comparison is somewhat of an oversight.
For that matter, there's no UI comparison either - no video showing a side-by-side diff between Zorbi and other tools (Anki, Mnemosyne, Quizlet, etc) - which, all in all, makes it a hard sell for most people who are already using an SRS, and I'm pretty sure that Quizlet has much more momentum and can acquire new-to-SRS users faster than Zorbi can.