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Re:Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards by deckar01 on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:47PM (#22386549)
Technical writing is a skill. Little things like linking related topics requires foresight into the range of knowledge your audience could have. It is easy to assume everyone shares the same knowledge you do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

Re:Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards by alanbernstein on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:52PM (#22386596)
This is absolutely true, but you can seldom go wrong assuming that proper nouns (like Anki) should be accompanied by links.
Re:Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards by dguo on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:56PM (#22387827)
Thank you so much for adding that Wikipedia link. For years (no exaggeration), I've been trying to remember the term for the problem of forgetting what it was like to not know something. I was never able to come up with the right search query.

And now I'm going to add it to my queue for making Anki cards.

Re:Show HN: MDAnki – convert Markdown to Anki cards by thrownaway954 on Friday February 21, 2020 @03:53PM (#22386603)
which is why i always follow the "assume nothing" rule. when writing something, assume you have to explain everything. again though, it doesn't have to be verbose, just a one liner is more than enough.