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I LOVE anki!! I’m a heavy user. Everything goes in my morning flash cards. Knots, geography, language, tar commandline flags, papers, statistics homework. Fill them with things you like, is my advice - it’s fun to say hello to hobbies on the verge of your memory in the morning. Bird calls! I’m learning sounds of bird calls since I can’t see very well so I can’t learn by sight. I listed eBird’s set of common birds nea…
My boy is 11 now. We've used Anki with him every day since he was about 5. Examples of things he's memorized, for fun: * every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map * spelling * many body parts, names of bones and organs, from illustration * chemical elements, by symbol (Na, Fe, Zn, etc) * unix filesystem commands * numeracy references (km from here to Japan, earth to sun, meters from home to school) * re…
Your boy is precious! He's on his way to becoming a highly intelligent adult. I've seen a lot of people going like... why remember stuff when you can easily google it? But it doesn't work that way. The more facts reside in your brain, the more avenues it has to connect them together and generate insights (after all, that thing is the OG "neural network"). I highly admire your parenting in this aspect, and I hope to d…
I think the workaround that I came up with myself was to work through a large amount of derivations (maths, physics and chemistry) and try to note the common stuff and prepared shorter and shorter versions of the notes from which I could rapidly reconstruct everything else.
In hindsight, I was training an autoencoder.
I'm using a competitor on Android since both Anki apps (AnkiMobile and AnkiDroid) really aren't good enough for my language learning activity. They aren't as good as the desktop Anki app. I'm actually thinking of building my own app for a while since the all the flashcard apps on mobile don't really work for me. Not sure I'll find the motivation to do it though, I'm just using the least bad option I've found. Specifi…
Hi, my app which I've mentioned in my previous comment does that. Is there anything else that you're looking for in a flashcards language learning app that Anki misses?
Right now I'm using this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor...
Which seems the only one I found supporting auto-TTS in lots of languages which you can toggle in the settings.
The UI is truly awful though and the space repetition algorithm is kind of borked.
(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…
Dude. You rock at UX design. This is amazing… Only trouble I have tbh is figuring out what I want to read in German! But I’ve signed up and will give this a spin, and send what feedback I can.
Ankidroid question here: On Android systems, if you use the free Japanese dictionary Japanese Kanji Study (by Chase Colburn) it can generate Anki flash cards directly from the app, so everytime you look up a word you can also generate the card for Ankidroid/Anki. Is there similar functionality in any Chinese dictionary app for Android?
I believe the wiki[0] lists most of the apps which use our API
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Third-Party-A...
(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…
Every few years I use Anki heavily for language stuff (German, more recently Latin and Classical Chinese), up to 90 minutes a day, but I can never keep the workload under control, or my habits change, and give it up. I still benefit from a year of training, but it seems the long-tail of spaced repetition doesn't work for me at all. But so long as I get to the point where I can read or watch TV, the considerable effor…
I had the same experience. I invested a lot of time on Anki and it paid back, but I could never stick to it. There is always a point where I have to skip 2 or 3 days because of life and the huge backlog is too much that I give up. I recently started to use Supermemo because of some comments on HN, and so far it have been going quite well. I feel less overwhelmed when I have to take a break, I think the algorithm (or…
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Hi, my app which I've mentioned in my previous comment does that. Is there anything else that you're looking for in a flashcards language learning app that Anki misses?
It seems pretty good but your app is only targetting German right? I'm learning another language. Right now I'm using this one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor... Which seems the only one I found supporting auto-TTS in lots of languages which you can toggle in the settings. The UI is truly awful though and the space repetition algorithm is kind of borked.
love anki! i use it for japanese. although i wish i could donate to the devs at least, they dont take donations
AnkiDroid has an Open Collective [1] https://opencollective.com/ankidroid
[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ankimobile-flashcards/id373493...
This is like the 20th time the Anki-promoting mafia have posted it on HN yes, kids: we know Anki exists