Spaced Repetition Memory System
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lovestory
4 hours ago
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This is a few days worth of materials to read. If anyone finds it overwhelming, I recommend you read this comic that teaches you the basics of idea behind spaced repetition https://ncase.me/remember/
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golly_ned
6 hours ago
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Dropping a product recommendation -- my favorite spaced repetition + notetaking + learning app: https://www.remnote.com/

I'm not affiliated, just a big booster. For those familiar with Anki it follows the same conventions. It has an excellent system for managing cards. Adding cards is as easy as writing a bullet point: [front of card] == [back of card]. They got the ergonomics right and clearly know the space very well; it has the right keyboard accessibility and shortcuts and navigation. It supports the basics you'd expect like cloze deletions (fill-in-the-blank), image occlusion (cover up parts of an image). It manages assets like PDFs and images. It uses FSRS (the best SRS scheduling algorithm atm).

It has the best (optional) AI integration into a product I've seen except for the usual code-generation suspects. I'm learning spanish and can type into a bullet point something like "el vaquero ==< [tab]" and have the translation automatically generated for me into a forward and reverse card. I'm learning math and can cloze-delete parts of latex equations; the AI can very frequently generate excellent and accurate latex equations, which I can make small edits to as I'd like. These kinds of bonuses make taking live flashcard-based notes during my spanish tutoring sessions and math-based parts of classes feasible.

It's less low-level configurable than Anki and more "works out of the box" with a smaller extension system. I've had enough of trying to fiddle with Anki. Overall just excellent -- I'm not affiliated in any way. Development is very fast. Release note videos are incredible, minor updates occur ~weekly. I've run into a few bugs, especially when I was traveling overseas where internet isn't strong, but overall very pleased with it.

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fsargent
5 hours ago
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Thanks for recommending it! I’ve had the same issues with Anki and am shocked there aren’t more clones considering it’s open source. Excited to try remnote.
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_Algernon_
2 hours ago
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My astroturfing radar is going into overdrive from this comment chain.
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theappsecguy
3 hours ago
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Insanely expensive. 18$ usd per month?? I’m going to guess it’s also an Electron monstrosity
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mfranzs
51 minutes ago
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RemNote founder here - the free version has unlimited cards and notes!

You can upgrade to the Pro version for $10/month if you want tables, PDF uploads, and more.

The $18 version is our most expensive plan that includes AI credits as well.

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pillefitz
3 hours ago
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His article https://andymatuschak.org/books/ inspired me to build https://readboost.io/ to embed Q&A and SRS into ePubs. Might be buggy still, but I personally found it quite useful!
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dmazin
4 hours ago
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I very highly recommend a blog post by this same author: [How to write good prompts](https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/). This post made spaced repetition click for me.
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max_
4 hours ago
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Is there a good space repetition app on Android that you recommend?

That only does space repetition?

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yjftsjthsd-h
4 hours ago
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To mirror the sibling comment: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ is

* Open Source

* Cross-platform

* $0 except on iOS

* Popular enough to have a community and ecosystem around it

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Tomte
4 hours ago
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AnkiDroid
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kelvinjps10
2 hours ago
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Second this
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