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Sounds like you dig it because you're not a serious user of either flash card apps or EverNote.
Today I learned there are people who consider themselves serious users of flash card apps. I use Evernote every day and it doesn't annoy me as a diversion from their core product. The smart Smart Cover integration is cool, at least.
This is nifty enough, but Evernote has so many problems with its client UI design that I hate to see them spending front-end engineer development time on side diversions like this. I recently let my Evernote Premium subscription lapse and migrated my notes to another system because I was so frustrated with the painful user experience across their various clients, despite their core product idea being so awesome and t…
I myself migrated to simplenote. It's more lightweight and text-only, but I can live with that. iPhone client is quite decent and for Windows there is ResophNotes, or one can just use the online version. Everything is stored in text files, which is another advantage.
This is nifty enough, but Evernote has so many problems with its client UI design that I hate to see them spending front-end engineer development time on side diversions like this. I recently let my Evernote Premium subscription lapse and migrated my notes to another system because I was so frustrated with the painful user experience across their various clients, despite their core product idea being so awesome and t…
I'd like to know what you switched to? As a Premium subscriber to EverNote, this news about a very bad flash card app indicates to me that they aren't serious about improving their core product and instead want to capitalize on the brand with gimmicky spinoffs. Basically I just lost a lot of confidence in the EverNote brand.
I'm still using Evernote for collecting receipts, though. The combination of some smart Gmail filters (Amazon/iTunes/Steam/etc receipts all auto-forward to my Evernote email address) and the automatic PDF OCR (I've got a document feeder scanner) still make it simpler than anything else for that. I reference my receipts so rarely that I can put up with the painful UI once every few months.
This is such a great example of excess. iPad 2: 500$+ Smart Cover: 40$ Evernote Peek: 0$. vs. Pack of index cards: 2$
What you really want is Anki for iPad, which is a GOOD flash card program that uses modern neuroscience to improve your learning. And it's free. Also doesn't force you to lift up a magnet in meat space to use it.
It's an interesting use of the Smart Cover, but can it be a serious competitor to other flash card replacement apps since there's no easy way to report success or failure by lifting/replacing the cover?
Tapping the screen? Also, is right/wrong reporting really that important? I don't have a way to do it with paper flashcards...
Most people separate paper flashcards into two piles as they go, one for those they got right and one for those they got wrong.
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What you really want is Anki for iPad, which is a GOOD flash card program that uses modern neuroscience to improve your learning. And it's free. Also doesn't force you to lift up a magnet in meat space to use it.
How is it that in all the years of public schools and university throwing flash cards at us that I have never, until this thread, heard of spaced repetition systems? I looked up the program you recommended and will try it out for sure, but here's my questions for you: Is this something that you do everyday to maintain, how many subjects do you use this system on at one time and how long each day do you spend total do…
If you do it every day you'll get amazing results, however I'm not that dedicated, but do it multiple times per week anyway.
Basically it makes my life a lot easier to have certain things memorized, and Anki makes memorizing stuff easier.
A lot of people (esp nerds) believe it is a sign of weakness to use flash cards. It's their loss.