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Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by anigbrowl on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:12AM (#28401258)
I went from 'well it's OK' to 'I quite like this' to 'it's great!' in about 10 minutes.

Creating a new web account loads the tutorial page, but it's a little confusing at first how to add a node. Also, there are quite a few spelling and grammar errors on that page which will make an unfair negative impression. If you clean those up you will get more conversions.

Examples:

  It's my job to keep your complicated brain neat and tidy and remember **things** for a long time!

  Here's how you can **create** a neat Note Garden.

  2. Structure what you have learned and put **it** in order.
  
  I even take care of your knowledge so that you won't forget **it** for the rest of your life!

  (The road to being a great gardener** was **not easy, but we did it!)
Note also in the last example how the bold markdown surrounds the whitespace. I highlighted this manually (and carelessly) but clicking on a word also selects trailing spaces. You should probably strip the whitespace.

On the landing page 'Write Smartly' is correct English, but people rarely use the word this way - although it is technically correct it feels weird, and you don't want to create that feeling on a landing page. 'Write Smart' would be better.

Also, you wrote 'Law students - People who study for a long time that should not be forgotten'. I suggest 'Law students - People who need to study and retain knowledge for a long time.'

These are small language errors, but they would be very quickly noticed by your target audience.

Finally, the desktop sign-in with Google seems not to work - it opens a blank window and then closes again. Maybe it is just from server load right now.

Anyway I like it a lot and will consider using it regularly. I am more of a pencil-and-paper note person but this is one of the nicest digital notebooks I've found.

Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by SunghoYahng on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:30AM (#28401380)
Thank you. Corrected the parts you pointed out!!

As for the part where desktop google sign-in does not work, regarding your description, it seems that the part that executes the app protocol using a browser does not seem to work.... I'm sorry. Let me see why not.

Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by Sparrowhawk21 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:52AM (#28402240)
"Write smartly" is normal to me as a speaker of British English. That's not to say the alternative shouldn't be preferred though.
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by dunefox on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:16AM (#28402697)
> Create courses and learn Smart!

"What's 'Smart' and why do I need to learn it?"

Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by anigbrowl on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:21PM (#28409561)
British people dress smartly and often act smartly but I've never heard anyone say a a book was written smartly, if you see what I mean.
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by Sparrowhawk21 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:41PM (#28409740)
They'd probably say "smartly written". But of course that wasn't the original phrase. My point was solely that it's not strange to us.
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by tempo1234 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:04AM (#28401597)
You're great at giving feedback.
Re:Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion i... by anigbrowl on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:26PM (#28409612)
Thank you!