Comment by buckwilson
7 days ago
Signed up!
I've always been interested in spaced repetition but never had the patience to learn the "right" way to do it. This looks pretty helpful.
Do you think this AI x repetition concept works better for some types of learning than others?
Thank you! The AI review feature is useful because it can steer you in the right direction if you're having trouble remembering a card. The main thing about spaced repetition is that in order to memorize you have to do active recall, and the AI helps in that sense with the subtle nudges.
Owl wasn't built with AI in mind, though. It isn't necessarily an AI product. We use it where it helps (analyzing a paper and creating cards to study that paper is very cool, for example). I think there are even more angles to explore, but we can't claim to have tried them all :-)
I think you need to do a better job of explaining what benefit it brings, because AI is the only thing I see that distinguishes at from Anki.
I saw you said you didn't like the Anki UX, and I agree that it's a little unfriendly to new users. Your product looks like it's well pitched to new SRS users. But I don't see anything the compels, or even proposes, a need to switch from other solutions right now.