Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what you read

Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by willlma on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:57PM (#10433740)

Founder here. Hibou is a Chrome extension that allows you to highlight whatever you find interesting, then sends you a notification when it's time to review those highlights. Spaced repetition is a proven technique that waits until you're about to forget something before reminding you to review it, thus helping you remember as much as possible as effortlessly as possible.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of the HN community

Will

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by viraptor on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:28PM (#10435212)

So are you a techzing listener, or was it a coincidence?

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by phrasemix on Thursday October 22, 2015 @09:59PM (#10436393)

This was the first thing that I thought of. Jason calls the idea "Memory Hole", which is both a much better and much worse name than "Hibou".

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by jayro on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:46PM (#10441453)

Jason here! I totally agree - the name "Memory Hole" doesn't really make any sense at all given what it means -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

But something about it always made me laugh, so that's what I called it.

Anyway, I'm so glad that someone FINALLY got around to building the damn thing! I guess the lesson here is that if you want something done, either do it yourself, or ... be prepared to wait a really long time. ;)

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by willlma on Friday October 23, 2015 @04:29PM (#10441117)

Hahaha, I totally agree. I've just reached out to them for some feedback. Seems like they've spent a lot of time thinking about this.

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by jayro on Friday October 23, 2015 @05:47PM (#10441455)

Nice work! I think we need to bring you on the show.

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by willlma on Thursday October 22, 2015 @06:25PM (#10435557)

Pure coincidence. Is there a particular episode I should listen to?

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by viraptor on Thursday October 22, 2015 @06:28PM (#10435573)

Not sure, your exact idea has been mentioned many times as "I really want it to exist, but don't have time to do it".

The first mention in the episode notes goes back to 2012 (http://techzinglive.com/page/1077/189-tz-discussion-synthesi...) I think, it mentions spaced repetition and those two were close together.

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Re:Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what y... by willlma on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:01PM (#10435742)

Nice! There are plenty of spaced-repetition tools out there, but I wanted to make it really easy to add info into a database, and I thought that text selection would be the easiest.

That episode mentions Gary Wolf's 2008 Wired article [Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm](http://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/), which I think is what inspired me to create Hibou.

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