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

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I added an install.md now for setting it up locally. Does that work for you?

Nice. Tip: format it as a shell code block on markdown Also eval adding a Dockerfile for super-rapid deploy

Thanks. I'll probably look into a dockerfile option.

Does format as a shell code block mean write it in a way that it can just be copied and pasted easily?

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

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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.

I think the reality of neuroscience and behavioral research at this point in time is that it's just really difficult to translate neuro -> behavior and thought processes. There are some decently well researched learning methods, such as spaced repetition and enhancing depth of knowledge but we don't have a totally clear picture on why these things work well. There are suspicions of course, such as how deeper knowledg…

Hopefully, with relatively new equipment that allows more precise realtime brain sensing, we should have more insightful research in the years to come.[0] But the issue of defining learning itself will remain thorny.

[0] https://www.kernel.com/

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

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> 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 This would make way more sense if it was an add-on to existing information/knowledge management software like Zotero. The base software would take care of the "add documents to the app" workflow, and the "highlight excerpts and use them to build cloze-testing S…

Zotero is probably not the best example here. Its not a information/knowledge managment software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero

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

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Hah, i am working on a near identical app. How did you deal with pulling content from the web without reinventing wheels?

I was thinking about reusing an existing store of scraping instructions, InstantView by Telegram (iirc that's the name). Looks fairly straight forward to write a parser for that spec. However, i wanted to be able to store some in a repo on my own as well, but i fear DMCA strikes on a repo that stores instructions to scrape pages.

How did you solve this?

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

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Hah, i am working on a near identical app. How did you deal with pulling content from the web without reinventing wheels? I was thinking about reusing an existing store of scraping instructions, InstantView by Telegram (iirc that's the name). Looks fairly straight forward to write a parser for that spec. However, i wanted to be able to store some in a repo on my own as well, but i fear DMCA strikes on a repo that sto…

I used mozilla's Readability.js as the base. So didn't reinvent anything really :D

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

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I'm working on a similar project for a similar concept that involves spacing reading material called Incremental Reading[1] so it was a pleasant surprise seeing your project, great work.

For exporting to Anki, I suggest you look at Anki-Connect[2] if you haven't already.

[1]: http://super-memory.com/help/read.htm

[2]: https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/

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

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I'm working on a similar project for a similar concept that involves spacing reading material called Incremental Reading[1] so it was a pleasant surprise seeing your project, great work. For exporting to Anki, I suggest you look at Anki-Connect[2] if you haven't already. [1]: http://super-memory.com/help/read.htm [2]: https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/

sweeet. Thank you! Will look at those. And I'm really happy that this whole space is finally getting attention.

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

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I'm working on a similar project for a similar concept that involves spacing reading material called Incremental Reading[1] so it was a pleasant surprise seeing your project, great work. For exporting to Anki, I suggest you look at Anki-Connect[2] if you haven't already. [1]: http://super-memory.com/help/read.htm [2]: https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/

Do you use Supermemo or Anki? Is your project related to the Incremental Reading Anki plugin?

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/935264945

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

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I was about to ask the same thing, didn't realize until your answer, that it is web-based? A local offline application would be great! (also maybe.. is making an account necessary?) And one more question, can it also pull multi-page documentation, or just single URL's? I assume it downloads websites and makes them offline available, or is that a wrong assumption.

It is web based. That way you can read on the computer and continue reading on the phone or any other device. A version that runs just locally on the computer would also work, but that wasn't the main focus of this particular iteration. I haven't built a robust offline functionality yet. That's something I'm thinking of doing in the near future. Was thinking of having your X most recent articles cached. It parses the…

I would get a lot of value out of a tool like this. I have a strong preference for a portable executable and file-based storage. Performance can be a problem with those, but I want to use my existing file management and synchronization tools as much as possible.

If that's not possible, than my second preference is a docker-based deployment on Unraid. That's the easiest way for me to self-host. Nice to be able to point to an existing DB for that too.

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