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

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Post by roznoshchik »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #43

Fantastic! I'll have a deeper look and see if there's any opportunities for integrating this into https://learnawesome.org (which is also open-source). One of the most frustating thing about the current generation of note-taking apps has been that either they are available as an offline app, or as a VS Code plugin. Many of them have turned into VC-funded startups - keeping the web version as a proprietary product, bl…

Learnawesome is very nice. Curating learning paths is a real pain these days. It's amazing that there's so much information available, but it's now almost impossible to make decisions. So I think there's a lot of important work to be done there to make it easier for people to reskill and keep learning.

Do you mean that they aren't available as offline or vs code plugins? I personally use Bear locally. I find it's minimalism refreshing.

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

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Post by roznoshchik »

nmstoker wrote: post #47

This looks really useful, as it solves a frequent concern I have: I read lots of articles but gradually important details drift from my recall. Great to see the suggestions people have had (letting people see the product, giving install details etc) and you've been super responsive. You mention in replies below about integrating with other tools as a way for it to work. I don't know how feasible this might be, but a…

Thanks for the kind words. I would need to look over their tool in detail (it looks great btw) to really think through the details of how an integration might work.

One of the things I want to add to the application soon is some sort of "Post" function. Wherein you write something that synthesizes data from multiple sources and you can add in your highlights as quotes.

So really just a dedicated writing feature. This is another thing that's proven to increase comprehension and retention, synthesizing some learning into a blogpost or something like that.

So with integrations, that's the kind of thing that is perfect for integration. Because although I want to add it myself, there's no way that I would make something as dedicated and enjoyable as a tool that's only concentrating on the writing and notetaking experience.

As is allowing people to read elsewhere and import their highlights.

As is allowing people to review in some other place.

So I guess my perspective is that I want to offer a total experience, that's completely non binding and allows you to get the data out at any point to move it to your app of choice.

sorry, I rambled. Not sure that made a whole lot of sense :D

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

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Post by katspaugh »

Hey Rostislav,

Author of https://fluentcards.com and https://germanreader.com here. I really like some of the ideas you implemented in the app.

Your landing page and the new features vlog are amazing! You’re clearly very dedicated to the project and it has a cute personal touch. Also kudos for open-sourcing it!

Looking forward to trying out your app more deeply. Cheers!

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

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Post by Vivtek »

pbronez wrote: post #29
roznoshchik wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 poin…

Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable.

I mean, potentially.

I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like this kind of tool to interoperate with.

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

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Post by Vivtek »

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.

Here's a reasonable overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988

I'm not sure that one touches on neuroscience; it's more psych-oriented if I remember correctly.

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

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Post by budadre75 »

awesome! I've been thinking how to do it. Like if I highlight from Kindle or Calibre, how do I get them to Anki. However as an avid Anki user for language studying, one issue I found is that the most difficult part is keeping up with sheer amount of review from Anki. I could have hundreds of review, but not having enough time to study them. And I would imagine reading would generate a lot of highlights users want to remember, which would make it much more difficult. So now I am thinking the filtering and condensing parts of such method should be emphasized.

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

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Post by roznoshchik »

Vivtek wrote: post #55

You know, the original Readability was in Python. You could eliminate your Node dependency by moving to it, I'd think.

I didn't know. I thought it was based on Arc90's original code from 2010, but I imagined that was js.

I initially was using the python port by ReadabiliPy, but it wasn't working as well as the js code in most of my tests, so I just switched.

But yeah, open to exploring different options to make it less complex.

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

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Post by roznoshchik »

budadre75 wrote: post #57

awesome! I've been thinking how to do it. Like if I highlight from Kindle or Calibre, how do I get them to Anki. However as an avid Anki user for language studying, one issue I found is that the most difficult part is keeping up with sheer amount of review from Anki. I could have hundreds of review, but not having enough time to study them. And I would imagine reading would generate a lot of highlights users want to…

Yeah, I feel this pain. I don't have any really great ideas on this front. I've started to have different review sessions using the filter function in Lurnby, but it doesn't really solve the fact that the amount to review just continues to grow.

On that end, having been using this tool and process for about a year now, I've come to the feeling that I shouldn't worry about that and just think of it as a part of my daily process.

Rather than being goal oriented about remembering something, I've just started to trust that the information is in the system and the system works. Things naturally and serendipitously appear in my review feed and my memory and retention of them improve, but in a less planned way than it might be with a more focused process.

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

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Post by roznoshchik »

katspaugh wrote: post #53

Hey Rostislav, Author of https://fluentcards.com and https://germanreader.com here. I really like some of the ideas you implemented in the app. Your landing page and the new features vlog are amazing! You’re clearly very dedicated to the project and it has a cute personal touch. Also kudos for open-sourcing it! Looking forward to trying out your app more deeply. Cheers!

Thanks for the kind words!

I didn't realize kindle kept track of your dictionary lookups. That's a cool thing and makes a lot of sense to review those.

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