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Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#11

Post by knubie »

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #7

Does this have the ability to export? Data portability is pretty important when putting your knowledge in a spaced repetition system. Also, does it support import from Anki? That might be a major selling point. Edit: It looks like this stores data in localStorage? From the Privacy Policy [0] page: > Mochi does not store any of your data on its servers. All content created in Mochi is stored on your computer. While th…

It does support exporting in the form of .mochi files, which is basically just a zip file containing media from the deck and a plain text EDN for describing the data, which could be easily converted to JSON or CSV or whatever.

The browser version persists to local storage, but the desktop app persists to a flat file that is backed up every time the app launches.

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#12

Post by AlphaWeaver »

knubie wrote: post #11
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #7

Does this have the ability to export? Data portability is pretty important when putting your knowledge in a spaced repetition system. Also, does it support import from Anki? That might be a major selling point. Edit: It looks like this stores data in localStorage? From the Privacy Policy [0] page: > Mochi does not store any of your data on its servers. All content created in Mochi is stored on your computer. While th…

It does support exporting in the form of .mochi files, which is basically just a zip file containing media from the deck and a plain text EDN for describing the data, which could be easily converted to JSON or CSV or whatever. The browser version persists to local storage, but the desktop app persists to a flat file that is backed up every time the app launches.

Great, thanks for the transparency.

When you say that the flat file is backed up, what do you mean by that?

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#13

Post by adamfeldman »

knubie wrote: post #11
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #7

Does this have the ability to export? Data portability is pretty important when putting your knowledge in a spaced repetition system. Also, does it support import from Anki? That might be a major selling point. Edit: It looks like this stores data in localStorage? From the Privacy Policy [0] page: > Mochi does not store any of your data on its servers. All content created in Mochi is stored on your computer. While th…

It does support exporting in the form of .mochi files, which is basically just a zip file containing media from the deck and a plain text EDN for describing the data, which could be easily converted to JSON or CSV or whatever. The browser version persists to local storage, but the desktop app persists to a flat file that is backed up every time the app launches.

Given the use of EDN, I take it Clojure(Script) is part of your tech stack?

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#17

Post by asdkhadsj »

This looks great! Few questions:

1. Any mobile version planned?

2. Any planned SDK? I've got a knowledge base i'v been working on and I plan on adding a Spaced Repetition frontend. Rather than write my own, integrating with this excellent UI would be great!

3. Any planned purchase options? If I can get support for my #1 and #2, I'd love to support this with my wallet :)

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

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Post by knubie »

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #12
knubie wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does support exporting in the form of .mochi files, which is basically just a zip file containing media from the deck and a plain text EDN for describing the data, which could be easily converted to JSON or CSV or whatever. The browser version persists to local storage, but the desktop app persists to a flat file that is backed up every time the app launches.

Great, thanks for the transparency. When you say that the flat file is backed up, what do you mean by that?

It's a bit complicated, but changes in the app are stored separately, and then applied to the stored db on app start-up. So the previous stored db is backed up before the new changes are applied.

Hope that answers your question.

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#19

Post by knubie »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #17

This looks great! Few questions: 1. Any mobile version planned? 2. Any planned SDK? I've got a knowledge base i'v been working on and I plan on adding a Spaced Repetition frontend. Rather than write my own, integrating with this excellent UI would be great! 3. Any planned purchase options? If I can get support for my #1 and #2, I'd love to support this with my wallet :)

Hey, thanks for checking out the app!

1. No plans in the immediate future, but the app is written for Electron, and is usable in-browser today as a web app, so creating a mobile version of the web app version should be pretty straightforward. The only difficulty there would be syncing data. Everything is offline at this point.

2. Don't have an SDK at the moment, but there is an import option. I haven't documented the format of import files, but it's basically a zip file with media + an EDN (alternative to JSON). Being able to programmatically create import files was definitely a design goal from the beginning. Shoot me an email at matt at mochi.cards and I can help you out with your particular use case.

3. Thanks! I didn't add a payment option because I wanted to get feedback from HN before I went through the trouble of adding payment / trial version etc. If I create the mobile/web-app version with cloud syncing I would probably charge a small monthly fee for that.

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#20

Post by knubie »

sorokod wrote: post #9

How does it compare to Anki?

Initially I started building Mochi in response to Anki. Back then Anki was super powerful but I had a lot of trouble figuring out the UI and I got frustrated with how clunky the UX was.

I wanted to make something a lot simpler and a little more accessible. I also wanted to be able to just write markdown for my cards.

Mochi also has the ability to link cards to each other, or link cards to notes and vice versa. I'm also exploring the idea of creating cards from notes / embedding cards into notes.

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