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Re: An open source web-based flashcard studying system

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Post by realusername » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #99

realusername wrote: post #79

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I've never managed to make pronunciation work on ankimobile personally, I'm using another app

That's nice, but AnkiDroid and AnkiMobile are different things. The former is a complete FOSS implementation of Anki for Android, whereas AnkiMobile is a proprietary companion app to Anki from the Anki author (I think, iOS only).

I didn't know that, I only use android so I did not notice you had another app on iOS. Maybe the one I tried was called AnkiDroid then? I can't remember.

I'm using a completely non-Anki based flashcard app just because of the lack of this feature.

Re: An open source web-based flashcard studying system

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Post by lelanthran » Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 9:03 PM UTC

markeibes wrote: post #98

lelanthran wrote: post #69

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> you keep using the word objective and i'm not sure you know what that word means. I don't know if maybe English is your first language or not, but objective means "based on established fact". In other words, you don't know the criteria I've used to rank one above the other in all my comparisons, you only know that it is something based on fact.[1] > these are subjective comparisons that you are making. No, they are…

No. Your assessment is obviously subjective because you say that UI/UX is better on Windows than on macOS which is objectively wrong.

> No. Your assessment is obviously subjective because you say that UI/UX is better on Windows than on macOS which is objectively wrong.

UI and UX is not subjective.

That Mac, in 2023, doesn't even have snapping Windows is not an inaccurate observation. No window groups. Barely visible and hard to hit Window titlebar buttons. Fails to remember Window placement for some tools (tkdiff) but not for others.

Without 3rd party addons, Mac window management is unusually poor (compared to various other Window managers, including Windows). Window management is a major component of a UI based on application windows.

None of those things are subjective.

Even with 3rd party add-ons, I eventually gave up and stopped using the MB M1 as soon as I could.

Re: An open source web-based flashcard studying system

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Post by j45 » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

pessimizer wrote: post #60

j45 wrote: post #17

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Feature count won’t make it better than Anki, but user experience will.

Although features around moving cards between decks, drawing from multiple decks, allowing tranches of cards to be released based on other sets of cards reaching maturity, etc. would get me to switch. I've been an Anki user for a few years, and the inability for Anki users to do simple things easily (or sometimes at all) is frustrating. Having more than a few decks also slows everything in Anki to a crawl. The commun…

Stay the course and build the next curve. I didn't adopt Anki for all the reasons you listed.