[HN Gopher] Spaced Repetition Memory System
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Spaced Repetition Memory System
Author : gasull
Score : 134 points
Date : 2025-05-18 15:48 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| golly_ned wrote:
| Dropping a product recommendation -- my favorite spaced
| repetition + notetaking + learning app: https://www.remnote.com/
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| 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).
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| 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.
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| 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.
| fsargent wrote:
| 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.
| _Algernon_ wrote:
| My astroturfing radar is going into overdrive from this
| comment chain.
| theappsecguy wrote:
| Insanely expensive. 18$ usd per month?? I'm going to guess it's
| also an Electron monstrosity
| dmazin wrote:
| 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.
| lovestory wrote:
| 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/
| max_ wrote:
| Is there a good space repetition app on Android that you
| recommend?
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| That only does space repetition?
| Tomte wrote:
| AnkiDroid
| kelvinjps10 wrote:
| Second this
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| To mirror the sibling comment: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ is
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| * Open Source
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| * Cross-platform
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| * $0 except on iOS
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| * Popular enough to have a community and ecosystem around it
| pillefitz wrote:
| 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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