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Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by GaggiX »

anal_reactor wrote: post #30
tpoacher wrote: post #25

I don't mind people comparing such projects against Anki, this is natural since Anki is quite dominant in this space, but I feel like every criticism of Anki on that list was either highly subjective, exaggerated, unfair, or outright wrong and unkind (in a "one does not climb a ladder by throwing others off it" manner). Not saying this is what Fernando intended to do here, but his sharp opinion does come across a bit…

Using Anki every day for about half an hour (I'm a slow learner lol). Anki sucks, but it's good enough that there's no point looking for other apps.

Anki is amazing, "anal_reactor" I think you're wrong on this.

Also "half an hour" != "slow learner", everything depends on the quantity, the difficulty and the chosen desired retention.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by jwrallie »

jkhdigital wrote: post #76
btilly wrote: post #40

I think that the real power of spaced repetition is not in flashcard applications like this. It is in behavior modification. Let's take a real example to show how this works. August 19, 2025. My wife called me in to help her decide what to do about a dentist that she thought was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before tryi…

Love this example. I started putting my Kindle highlights in the SRS—no prompt or anything, just the quoted text verbatim—and the effortless periodic review essentially burned the quotes in my memory for easy recall in moments when they were appropriate.

Did you know there is a limit on how many highlights you can record? It is a setting in the DRM of Kindle books.

If you are reading a book with DRM, marking things and planning to load them into SRS later, take care as it silently stops saving the highlights as text.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by tvshtr »

yellow_lead wrote: post #19

I'm happy to see others in the space, but I wish Anki competitors would implement a decent 'import from Anki' feature. Otherwise, I think most existing users of SRS are unlikely to switch (because we use Anki and have thousands of cards there already). The data format of Anki is a bit complicated but at least it's SQLite. I've seen a ton of shared decks and resources on ankiweb, but it's true you can't easily put the…

I think that many devs missed the fact that Anki went through major rewrite and all of its business logic/its brain/api are now contained in few rust crates. They're a pleasure to work with and it's very easy to write alternative frontends (just finished one). You don't have to import anything because you can just use the same db, and cards as Anki.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by GaggiX »

jbstack wrote: post #74
johanyc wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Anki" is ugly. not anki note

Yes but the article said "particularly the review screen". 95% of the review screen is made up of your card, which you can customise.

Also Anki is not ugly at all in general, the interface of Hashcards looks much uglier to me.

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Post by seizethecheese »

wisty wrote: post #55
btilly wrote: post #40

I think that the real power of spaced repetition is not in flashcard applications like this. It is in behavior modification. Let's take a real example to show how this works. August 19, 2025. My wife called me in to help her decide what to do about a dentist that she thought was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before tryi…

> A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before trying to fix it badly Sounds like you're not the only one at fault lol. Do you get mad at your wife if she offers suggestions before emotionally connecting? And would it still be too late even if she realises how "stupid she was"?

What’s the point of this? One only can control one’s self. Who cares if the other person was in the wrong too.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by seizethecheese »

Curious what HN thinks about a spaced repetition social network.

You could mark items in the feed to space repeat for yourself. This would also function as a “retweet”, which would align incentives such that content that gets promoted is actually durably useful or interesting. The posts people make would repeat to themselves too, so the source content should be good.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by seizethecheese »

epolanski wrote: post #64
btilly wrote: post #40

I think that the real power of spaced repetition is not in flashcard applications like this. It is in behavior modification. Let's take a real example to show how this works. August 19, 2025. My wife called me in to help her decide what to do about a dentist that she thought was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before tryi…

Interesting example with some questionable couple dynamics.

Looks really healthy to me. It’s unhealthy when a partner can’t recognize that they actually were at fault and try to change, but instead needs every fight to resolve with “we were both wrong”.

Re: Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

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Post by magarnicle »

wisty wrote: post #55
btilly wrote: post #40

I think that the real power of spaced repetition is not in flashcard applications like this. It is in behavior modification. Let's take a real example to show how this works. August 19, 2025. My wife called me in to help her decide what to do about a dentist that she thought was ripping her off. A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before tryi…

> A couple of quick suggestions later, and she went to being mad at me about not having heard the problem through before trying to fix it badly Sounds like you're not the only one at fault lol. Do you get mad at your wife if she offers suggestions before emotionally connecting? And would it still be too late even if she realises how "stupid she was"?

Part of the reason offering suggestions is 'wrong' is because it implies that they haven't tried to think of solutions to their problem. You are unwittingly implying that you are smarter than they are, even if that is not your intention.
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