Show HN: I made a minimalist spaced repetition tool

Post by andymatuschak » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC

mathnmusic wrote: post #80

andymatuschak wrote: post #63

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Agreed. I'm working on a set of specs like this[1] to expand on the mnemonic medium[2][3] work Michael Nielsen and I started last year. I'll be interested to see how the ecosystem evolves… [1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173 (despite the URL, this is an unlocked post describing the high-level concept) [2] https://quantum.country [3] https://numinous.productions/ttft/

Hi Andy, Is it possible to see the draft spec for the file format? A standards-based approach sounds great and I'd like to support this in LearnAwesome.org and perhaps contribute in development too?

Post by DAllison » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

knubie wrote: post #45

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #9

Theory / 2 Cents: don't just work on a GUI for spaced repetition cards, invent an open file format for spaced repetition (perhaps an XML plus an schema, or a JSON based file format, a subset of HTML or markdown, etc...). The idea is that you create a file format spec, perhaps even some open source libraries to operate on the file format. And then you sell a really nice GUI for editing that (perhaps a web page, perhap…

This is how Mochi[0] works. It exports a .EDN file that describes the cards, decks and review history. There are a few libraries out there that work with the format[2] but no one has adopted the format in their own apps AFAIK. Anki also has an export format but it's not documented. [0] https://mochi.cards/ [1] https://mochi.cards/faq.html#how-can-i-create-my-own-mochi-f... [2] https://github.com/knubie/subs2srs