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

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I installed the firefox addon, and was hoping that it can deal with paywalled content. It seems to me that lurnby is accessing the content from the server side and got nothing.

If lurnby could access the current DOM in the current browser tab via the browser addon and extract the content via readability.js, I am willing to be a paying customer. I believe this is technically possible.

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

#32

https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow.

Woah. Didn't know about this. I'm honestly amazed at how many similar things I've discovered that I didn't know about when I started this. I did look for similar tools, but didn't really surface that many of them. Not sure I would have ever started had I known the space was actually not as empty as it seemed.

Would love to know what about the flow was clunky and why it didn't fit your workflow. Might be a lot that I can learn from that.

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

#34

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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?

It'll format it as monospace, and typically in a format that's easier to recognize as being code.

IIRC you can do that by gating code like this:

  '''
  code goes here
  '''
in markdown, but it's been a while.

(The spaces are necessary for HN markup, but not the markdown formatting).

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

#35

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

I have been using Anki for the past 6 months (2021-Jul, present), before that I used SuperMemo for 9 months before that (2020-Oct, 2021-Jul), the reasons I switched to Anki are plenty (Linux/MathJax support being the top ones).

My project is not related to the Incremental Reading Anki plugin.

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

#36

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.

You are welcome, I'm happy about it too, especially with others mentioning similar projects to check out.

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

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use Supermemo or Anki? Is your project related to the Incremental Reading Anki plugin? https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/935264945

I have been using Anki for the past 6 months (2021-Jul, present), before that I used SuperMemo for 9 months before that (2020-Oct, 2021-Jul), the reasons I switched to Anki are plenty (Linux/MathJax support being the top ones). My project is not related to the Incremental Reading Anki plugin.

Cool! I'd love to know more about your project when it's ready to share :)

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

#38

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…

Since I'm working on a similar project, this is how I am planning to pull content from the web, utilizing percollate[1] to get the HTML content, I haven't written any implementation for this in Python yet.

If you don't mind me asking, how were you going to implement spaced repetition? Since the Incremental Reading algorithm has never been published as far as I know.

[1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

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

#40

I installed the firefox addon, and was hoping that it can deal with paywalled content. It seems to me that lurnby is accessing the content from the server side and got nothing. If lurnby could access the current DOM in the current browser tab via the browser addon and extract the content via readability.js, I am willing to be a paying customer. I believe this is technically possible.

Hey, thanks. I'll look into that. The way I've been personally dealing with paywalled content is just copy and paste. I use the "manual" option from "add content" and then save it that way.

Alternatively, I also email things to the app - the subject becomes the title, the body becomes the article.

But yeah, considering that the goal is to reduce friction, the manual work isn't ideal, but it gets the job done.

I'll try to take a look at what's possible with getting the current dom.

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