Re:Using Anki and Spaced Repetition
by arkades on Sunday May 26, 2019 @01:13PM
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I ... surprisingly agree.
I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thread and share my satisfaction.
I have different feelings about Polar. Maybe because it repeatedly gets front page every time Anki/SRS comes up, which isn’t rare. Or maybe it’s just because when I tried to use it to expand my Anki deck with peer reviewed papers, I found it unbearably inconvenient / difficult, -plus- it insists on being yet another privacy-invading cloud offering for a product for which cloud involvement feels forcibly tacked on. Quite disappointing, since this product really solves a problem for me.
I guess the combination of “how badly I wanted to like and use this product” + “how disappointing it was in use” + “how frequently it’s on the front page” adds up to seriously being sick of seeing Polar ads.
I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thread and share my satisfaction.
I have different feelings about Polar. Maybe because it repeatedly gets front page every time Anki/SRS comes up, which isn’t rare. Or maybe it’s just because when I tried to use it to expand my Anki deck with peer reviewed papers, I found it unbearably inconvenient / difficult, -plus- it insists on being yet another privacy-invading cloud offering for a product for which cloud involvement feels forcibly tacked on. Quite disappointing, since this product really solves a problem for me.
I guess the combination of “how badly I wanted to like and use this product” + “how disappointing it was in use” + “how frequently it’s on the front page” adds up to seriously being sick of seeing Polar ads.