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Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by fragmede »

kyorochan wrote: post #120
fragmede wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you want to install someone else's bloated mess that includes a ton of crap you'll never use?

Tell me about your custom browser you're reading HN on!

I'd love to!

So I used AI to help me write this, I gotta be honest, but I have this TUI I use over SSH to access HN. I call it Nitpick!

It's GPL, athttps://github.com/fragmede/nitpick

It uses the HN API and algolia and golang with the bubble tea libraries. I'm parsing/scraping the threads page though, because reconstructing that from the API was proving to be a hassle.

It even supports logging in and commenting and reply notification!

I'm not totally sure where I land on using libraries (bubble tea) as they do bloat the program with unnecessary features, but I do like its simple text interface over using a web browser and a whole javascript engine for just rendering text.

Anyway, patches welcome!

:)

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by zelphirkalt »

I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me:

When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks. I was starting to wonder, if people are actually just using Anki to learn to read Chinese characters, one-way learning basically, only recognition not writing. Only for reading subtitles and such, instead of writing with friends. Or perhaps they have the illusion, that they are able to write, because they can type in the Pinyin, and will get a selection of characters, which they then can recognize. But I, I want to be able to properly write the characters myself. The crucial issue was, that I did not find a simple setting to invert the direction of translation of a deck. How can such a simple thing not be among the most easy to find actions to perform with a deck? I read something about it not being possible on mobile phone, but somehow being possible on computer, but not as simple as flipping a switch.

Ultimately, I abandoned Anki and recently proceeded made my own tool for learning the characters, that is highly configurable and that can change the direction with the change of one config attribute.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by zelphirkalt »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #119
saubeidl wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, FSRS is much better. For me it was the difference between learning 10 new words of Mandarin a day and learning 20, with the same time commitment.

Does using FSRS result in less retention, due to scheduling less reviews than other systems? Or is it actually more efficient in a meaningful way by cutting out unnecessary reviews?

The goal is of course the latter.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by throw-the-towel »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #142

I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me: When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.…

Could you share your tool please?

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by david_allison »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #142

I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me: When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.…

> They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.

You can edit the structure of the card templates so they're the 'right way around' for you:

https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#card-types

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by sambapa »

watwut wrote: post #101
Ifkaluva wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, it’s a HUGE difference. FSRS leads to an incredibly reduced workload.

Yes, because intervals on some cards become absurdly large (4 years after seeing the card twice) .

If the algorithm says so, so it is.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by pushedx »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #142

I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me: When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.…

On mobile you can edit the front and back template.

Anki is a platform, not a content creator. I would be thankful that someome shared their hard work of creating a deck that has all of the content to meet your needs.

For what it's worth, there are many "RTK" decks for Japanese that show english keyword on front and expect you to write the kanji before flipping.

Maybe search for an "RTH" deck to go along with the book Remembering the Hanzi.

Anki is an extremely powerful and feature rich software, and it seems that you barely scratched the surface before dismissing it.

Edit: it took me 10 seconds to find this deck https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1489829777 there's probably a Simplified one as well. Good luck with your studies.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by bigbluesax »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #142

I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me: When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.…

>Ultimately, I abandoned Anki and recently proceeded made my own tool for learning the characters, that is highly configurable and that can change the direction with the change of one config attribute.

You built an entire flashcard app by yourself, but you couldn't figure out how to edit card templates in anki?

Ah who am I kidding, your probably just trying to advertise your app.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by pushedx »

__float wrote: post #10
infotainment wrote: post #5

On the plus side, the actually good mobile Anki client, AnkiDroid, remains out of the hands of this potentially questionable new entity. (AnkiDroid has always been run independently, which is good, considering the state of the iOS client, which has always been neglected.)

The (paid!) iOS client has always been a disappointment to me, and I've long been jealous of the open source Android one. I don't mind so much that it's paid, given how much use I get for the price, but it sucks knowing it sucks and not being able to help make it better.

I use the iOS app daily, and while it's not the prettiest thing in the world, it has nearly every feature of the desktop client, including full scripting support for card contents, which is amazing for things like collapsable elements and media. And, at the end of the day, it's about what you learn from using it that matters.
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