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Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

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Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

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Post by roznoshchik »

I've been working on Lurnby for 2 years. It's kind of like a mix of pocket + kindle + anki.

It lets you => add add epubs, pdfs, and web articles to the app => highlight and add comments => tag and organize highlights => review them with a spaced repetition system

Today I made the decision to open source the project. I'm passionate about helping other people learn to learn better and hope that this will allow a lot more innovation in the tool and the space.

I'm very new to open source and development in general really, but looking forward to receiving the guidance of the community.

Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source
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Post by wand3r »

This sounds cool. I would suggest putting a UI screenshot on the github page. At least for me personally, as someone who would use something like this, I don’t really have a great concept for the tool without seeing it. For Notes & Tools like this the UI is very important as a differentiator because a lot of similar things exist. To get buy in, people want to know exactly what they are getting.

Thats just my $0.02

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Post by daitangio »

wand3r wrote: post #2

This sounds cool. I would suggest putting a UI screenshot on the github page. At least for me personally, as someone who would use something like this, I don’t really have a great concept for the tool without seeing it. For Notes & Tools like this the UI is very important as a differentiator because a lot of similar things exist. To get buy in, people want to know exactly what they are getting. Thats just my $0.02

Also a short "Quick start guide" on the README would be nice...IU was unable to find out an INSTALL.md either.

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Post by roznoshchik »

wand3r wrote: post #2

This sounds cool. I would suggest putting a UI screenshot on the github page. At least for me personally, as someone who would use something like this, I don’t really have a great concept for the tool without seeing it. For Notes & Tools like this the UI is very important as a differentiator because a lot of similar things exist. To get buy in, people want to know exactly what they are getting. Thats just my $0.02

Thanks. I didn't realize I could add images to the github page. I'll see what I can do there.

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Post by roznoshchik »

daitangio wrote: post #3
wand3r wrote: post #2

This sounds cool. I would suggest putting a UI screenshot on the github page. At least for me personally, as someone who would use something like this, I don’t really have a great concept for the tool without seeing it. For Notes & Tools like this the UI is very important as a differentiator because a lot of similar things exist. To get buy in, people want to know exactly what they are getting. Thats just my $0.02

Also a short "Quick start guide" on the README would be nice...IU was unable to find out an INSTALL.md either.

Hey, by quickstart do you mean for installing it locally? Or for using it on the website?

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Post by roznoshchik »

Mougatine wrote: post #4

That sounds nice! I'll try it. Is it possible to then export the cards to Anki?

You can export yes, not entirely sure if you can export to Anki.

You can export in either txt or json.

And you can export 3 ways.

1. All highlights & notes from an article (article = epub / web article) 2. All highlights & notes from a particular topic/tag 3. All highlights & notes from your entire account organized by article.

I think that's how it works. Wrote the export code a while ago so the details escape me at the moment.

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Post by roznoshchik »

roznoshchik wrote: post #5
wand3r wrote: post #2

This sounds cool. I would suggest putting a UI screenshot on the github page. At least for me personally, as someone who would use something like this, I don’t really have a great concept for the tool without seeing it. For Notes & Tools like this the UI is very important as a differentiator because a lot of similar things exist. To get buy in, people want to know exactly what they are getting. Thats just my $0.02

Thanks. I didn't realize I could add images to the github page. I'll see what I can do there.

Added now. Thanks for the heads up!

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Post by roznoshchik »

network2592 wrote: post #9

What is the neuroscience research upon which the techniques are based? Do you have any paper or book references? It could be insightful for a visitor to the site to be given more context.

Hey, I don't have any specific papers. And I think neuroscience makes it sound fancier than it maybe is in reality. But the primary concepts are spaced-repetition, elaborative encoding, and active recall. And the main focus is really on reducing friction with putting these practices into play.
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