Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by stewbrew on Sunday December 13, 2015 @02:34PM (#10727561)

The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriate context. But creating good lists of sentences & translations is cumbersome and just throwing a tool at the "crowd" doesn't automatically get you quality content.

That said from all these tools I prefer anki since it has a web-based UI and an android app.

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Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by yermierc on Sunday December 13, 2015 @02:40PM (#10727585)

"lack of good quality material"

You definitely are correct and I agree with you 100%. The problem is that you can't just throw a tool at people and expect it to stick - ultimately people need good content to study. For us at https://www.memorangapp.com it comes down to two things: (1) Better collaboration and (2) Pre-made expert content. The latter takes a lot of money and time as we've effectively split the tool into a publishing platform and technology platform in parallel. (You can see an example of the expert marketplace of content at https://www.memorangapp.com/premium).

You can check it out at the website and there's another discussion in this thread. We have a web-based UI and Android/iOS apps currently. Brand new versions of these are being released next month as part of a 2.0 launch.

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Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by steve19 on Sunday December 13, 2015 @03:55PM (#10727900)

I would happily buy pre-made decks, but for decks I spend hours crafting myself, I want to know I have access them forever and not lose them if you get bought out or go bust.

Do you have export functionality?

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Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by yermierc on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @11:56PM (#10742476)

Currently you can export the HTML and also as printed sheets. In the next few months we'll enable exporting to formats such as csv/tsv. (This is currently supported in the admin interface, but we haven't made it a user-facing tool yet).

If it's any consolation, we already prepaid the next 2 years for AWS and are cash-flow positive. (i.e. not going bust anytime soon).

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Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by capedape on Monday December 14, 2015 @06:05PM (#10734679)

There is a lot of decent free material on quizlet, you just have to dig. I prefer to import it into Flashcards deluxe http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ because it's easy and even after years of using Anki, I still can't stand it's interface.

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Re:Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy by branchless on Sunday December 13, 2015 @02:59PM (#10727665)

I agree content is a problem however when learning French I find I benefit most from content I create. The act of creating it makes it more memorable.

I'm using anki now to learn French and it's a central pillar of my learning experience for vocab.

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