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Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by gingerlime »

yermierc wrote: post #73
gjcourt wrote: post #55

A friend and I decided to build an Anki replacement a few years ago, it's now located at https://www.memorangapp.com and has a loyal following of 10s of thousands of users. Anki is a great tool and has a wide variety of content on Ankiweb, however the ecosystem doesn't allow for any collaboration or the ability to keep content up to date (aside from manually editing decks, but where for example can you suggest a corr…

"A friend" reporting in... While many people may love Anki, you can count me out. I used it extensively during my first 2 years of medical school along with trying physical cards, Quizlet, and even my own custom batch files and macros. I think that it works for a very particular use case, and you need to fully commit to it to get the intended benefits. My personal belief is that an "adaptive" learning system doesn't…

This looks really interesting. How can I get in touch with you? (you can find contact details on my profile).

We're developing a learning platform for Anatomy, called Kenhub[0] and we've built our own quizzes with some aspects of spaced repetition already. We're looking at ways of taking it to the next level in terms of adaptability. We're also considering ways of re-purposing our original content to reach wider audience (we have thousands of our own anatomy illustrations and meta-data). Perhaps there's a way to collaborate with you?

[0] https://www.kenhub.com

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by JshWright »

such_a_casual wrote: post #75
gjcourt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We allow for private content, but that's a premium feature since it's against the ethos of our platform.

Privacy is against the ethos of your platform? I think that's about all that needs to be said.

What is your opinion on FOSS?

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by ansgri »

gjcourt wrote: post #64
ansgri wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some API or in-app functionality to import/export data e.g. to upload, backup or analyze card decks I create? You do really address the issues that prevent me from using Anki, and I'd be happy to pay for it once you do have that API.

We do have a fully-featured API, in fact our mobile apps are built on top of the same API as the website. At the present it's not documented, this will be happening as fast as we can work on it. We're a small 3 person company so things like documentation take a back seat sometimes. If you're handy with a browser console you should be able to poke around, pm me if you want an API key :-) The site itself is free, and y…

Thanks for the reply. Added "try memorang" to my to-do.

I imagine three use cases for myself in the nearest future:

* Learn some new foreign language,

* Upload and study a bunch of book quotes that I'd like to always keep in memory, and

* Create a card deck for the course I'm teaching.

Hope to get to it soon.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by yermierc »

such_a_casual wrote: post #75
gjcourt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We allow for private content, but that's a premium feature since it's against the ethos of our platform.

Privacy is against the ethos of your platform? I think that's about all that needs to be said.

It's not that we don't support or respect privacy, but that everything we do is to foster a positive environment of collaboration to minimize content creation redundancy and build morale.

You can choose to remove yourself from that community ecosystem, but it's not exactly our ethos or why we started on this endeavor.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by stewbrew »

The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriate context. But creating good lists of sentences & translations is cumbersome and just throwing a tool at the "crowd" doesn't automatically get you quality content.

That said from all these tools I prefer anki since it has a web-based UI and an android app.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by yermierc »

gingerlime wrote: post #81
yermierc wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"A friend" reporting in... While many people may love Anki, you can count me out. I used it extensively during my first 2 years of medical school along with trying physical cards, Quizlet, and even my own custom batch files and macros. I think that it works for a very particular use case, and you need to fully commit to it to get the intended benefits. My personal belief is that an "adaptive" learning system doesn't…

This looks really interesting. How can I get in touch with you? (you can find contact details on my profile). We're developing a learning platform for Anatomy, called Kenhub[0] and we've built our own quizzes with some aspects of spaced repetition already. We're looking at ways of taking it to the next level in terms of adaptability. We're also considering ways of re-purposing our original content to reach wider audi…

I've actually been following you guys for at least a year and think what you're doing is pretty cool. Memorang started out as a pure anatomy tool and we've been actively building our own curriculum, but as you know - producing the images takes a lot of time and having them NOW is a very attractive option.

You can email us at founders@memorangapp.com and it would be great to pick up the conversation!

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by gjcourt »

ansgri wrote: post #83
gjcourt wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do have a fully-featured API, in fact our mobile apps are built on top of the same API as the website. At the present it's not documented, this will be happening as fast as we can work on it. We're a small 3 person company so things like documentation take a back seat sometimes. If you're handy with a browser console you should be able to poke around, pm me if you want an API key :-) The site itself is free, and y…

Thanks for the reply. Added "try memorang" to my to-do. I imagine three use cases for myself in the nearest future: * Learn some new foreign language, * Upload and study a bunch of book quotes that I'd like to always keep in memory, and * Create a card deck for the course I'm teaching. Hope to get to it soon.

Awesome! I personally use our platform for things like expanding my multiplication table chops (out to 20) or learning about cooking temperatures http://www.memorangapp.com/flashcards/16309/Roast+-+Steak+Co...

Happy to help you design something for your coursework, we are actively looking to build an educator service allowing you to share course materials with students. Stay tuned for updates on this in the near future.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by yermierc »

stewbrew wrote: post #85

The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriate context. But creating good lists of sentences & translations is cumbersome and just throwing a tool at the "crowd" doesn't automatically get you quality content. That said from all these tools I prefer anki since it has a web-based UI and an android app.

"lack of good quality material"

You definitely are correct and I agree with you 100%. The problem is that you can't just throw a tool at people and expect it to stick - ultimately people need good content to study. For us at https://www.memorangapp.com it comes down to two things: (1) Better collaboration and (2) Pre-made expert content. The latter takes a lot of money and time as we've effectively split the tool into a publishing platform and technology platform in parallel. (You can see an example of the expert marketplace of content at https://www.memorangapp.com/premium).

You can check it out at the website and there's another discussion in this thread. We have a web-based UI and Android/iOS apps currently. Brand new versions of these are being released next month as part of a 2.0 launch.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by rukuu_001 »

cblop wrote: post #5

I used Anki for 30 minutes to an hour each day for about a year to memorise around 1500 Japanese characters and their readings, with the aid of a mnemonic technique. So long as you have an hour a day to dedicate to the flashcards without fail , you will retain the memorised information. My problem was that a job and location change altered my daily routine entirely, so I stopped reviewing the cards. One year later, I…

Not a brag, just a point: I learnt that many characters in a year too, without Anki. I also devoted an hour a day to learning.

My point is: devote an hour a day to any endeavor and you'll go far.

Re: Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

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Post by cle »

gjcourt wrote: post #55

A friend and I decided to build an Anki replacement a few years ago, it's now located at https://www.memorangapp.com and has a loyal following of 10s of thousands of users. Anki is a great tool and has a wide variety of content on Ankiweb, however the ecosystem doesn't allow for any collaboration or the ability to keep content up to date (aside from manually editing decks, but where for example can you suggest a corr…

Is it open source? Can I store and access the data locally?

I have a very large Anki deck that I've spent years building and curating, I'm not interested in surrendering all that labor to a closed ecosystem that may or may not be around in the future....

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