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SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by asciimo »

SamBam wrote: post #19

Looks nice at first glance. I had a bit of confusion with the Spanish course. I read through the basic categories, and decided to say "Claim Known" for one of them. It then asked me to "Choose a way to learn." This was odd, because I was just saying I knew the words, not in a particular direction (confusion #1). I chose that I knew them English => Spanish. I then went up to the top to set "English => Spanish" for the…

I had an opposing experience. I picked "Schedule" on each continent in the Countries course, and nothing happened. I do not know how to start the course.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by fanpuns »

AndreRauh wrote: post #6

Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…

A premium feature which might also be valuable to users would be tie-ins with other platforms. E.g. you are taking a Udemy course and it has a batch of cards created by the instructor.

Looks really cool, congrats on building it!

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by AndreRauh_ »

SamBam wrote: post #19

Looks nice at first glance. I had a bit of confusion with the Spanish course. I read through the basic categories, and decided to say "Claim Known" for one of them. It then asked me to "Choose a way to learn." This was odd, because I was just saying I knew the words, not in a particular direction (confusion #1). I chose that I knew them English => Spanish. I then went up to the top to set "English => Spanish" for the…

(New account since I'm hitting HN rate limit)

Thanks for the feedback! This is very helpful. There are definitely many rough edges in the app that will be improved. Regarding the UI: The React components state are actually always "remembered" so if you're in the middle of doing anything (like creating a course) you can go anywhere else and come back and find your UI in the exact same state. So it's feature but seems in your case was probably not optimal. I'll try to improve the UI around course learning!

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by ad_hominem »

AndreRauh wrote: post #6

Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…

> Card owner can accept/reject the change request

Can users make private forks of cards? For example if I liked some set of cards as a base but needed to make some alterations for my own purposes

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by AndreRauh_ »

amelius wrote: post #20
jhedwards wrote: post #16

Good job! This is a really cool project, I think I might try to contribute some content. Just a few nits: tooltip in sidebar is really distracting, it should have a slower animation and pop up after a brief hover. Also login/create account form should listen to enter keypress for submit. Should I send these observations to the contact email in the future?

What is the license for contributing?

If you contribute changes to the existing flash cards they'll be licensed under "Creative Commons BY SA" (most likely), every flash card will tell you the license if you open "view" it. If you create your own they'll just belong to SYL, though, single flash cards are not copyright-able so there is no issue if you steal those flash cards. And I personally would have no issues when people re-use content for other use.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by lobo_tuerto »

AndreRauh_ wrote: post #23
SamBam wrote: post #19

Looks nice at first glance. I had a bit of confusion with the Spanish course. I read through the basic categories, and decided to say "Claim Known" for one of them. It then asked me to "Choose a way to learn." This was odd, because I was just saying I knew the words, not in a particular direction (confusion #1). I chose that I knew them English => Spanish. I then went up to the top to set "English => Spanish" for the…

(New account since I'm hitting HN rate limit) Thanks for the feedback! This is very helpful. There are definitely many rough edges in the app that will be improved. Regarding the UI: The React components state are actually always "remembered" so if you're in the middle of doing anything (like creating a course) you can go anywhere else and come back and find your UI in the exact same state. So it's feature but seems…

The "More info" link about cookies leads to a non-existent page.

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by purplethinking »

Nadya wrote: post #17

This is originally how Memrise worked. Courses were references to a database entry that people could contribute/improve upon but it failed to scale to large amounts of users and especially failed when the language maintainers found themselves too busy to update 'cards'. I used to volunteer my help in maintaining the Japanese/English databases. The largest issue was curation - many duplicate entries would exist due to…

If I understand correctly, the Memrise data is closed source right? So what motivated you to contribute to something you don't control? Or do you keep ownership of your contributions somehow?

Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by [deleted] »

lobo_tuerto wrote: post #26
AndreRauh_ wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(New account since I'm hitting HN rate limit) Thanks for the feedback! This is very helpful. There are definitely many rough edges in the app that will be improved. Regarding the UI: The React components state are actually always "remembered" so if you're in the middle of doing anything (like creating a course) you can go anywhere else and come back and find your UI in the exact same state. So it's feature but seems…

The "More info" link about cookies leads to a non-existent page.

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Re: SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform

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Post by sand33pn »

AndreRauh wrote: post #6

Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…

I would love to give this a shot. Is there any way I can upload my existing Anki decks?
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