Comment by myflash13

1 day ago

As a longtime Anki user I just want to say THANK YOU! Just downloaded RemNote for the first time and gave it a spin. I’ve been using Anki for years for language learning (Ukrainian and Russian and Arabic), but also for poetry memorization. Weird coincidence: a few days ago I was looking for an AI-powered flashcard creator: I get regular emails from curated sources that have lots of useful information, but I am too lazy to create the cards to remember the points. I just downloaded RemNote and tried the AI-generation feature: fed it an article from UkrainianLessons.com and I was amazed at how it gave me a list of useful flashcards instantly. This is a game changer. The ability to study and create “in context” is also amazing since not all information needs to be a flashcard. The Notion-like/Workflowy/Roam interface also looks like a joy to work with. Really hope this is not a fly-by-night startup, as I am really looking forward to a decade of learning with this thing after a previous decade with Anki.

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mfranzs  1 day ago

RemNote founder here - been building RemNote for the past 8 years (4 in private for myself, 4 in public), and we're not going anywhere! SRS is the future.

  • myflash13  15 hours ago

    While I have you, I wanted to share with you an idea that I've had for years to improve SRS systems, that is SRS -> Email Inbox Zero as a brain hack. I tried to build a plugin for Anki but could not make it work. Not sure if it can be done with RemNote or I can build a plugin to do this.

    The basic idea: SRS is great, but it can be hard to get motivated to start studying your cards every day. On the other hand, most people have a habit/addiction to check their email or social media multiple times a day. The idea is to intersperse random card studying into my email or Telegram inbox, reducing the time to study a single card to a few seconds interspersed across a busy day. So I want to get a few random emails (or texts) with a due flashcard question, and have the ability to answer the flashcard directly in one click from the message. The hard part is that last part: getting the software to work so that I can answer the flashcard in a single click from the email, so that I don't need to open the whole app just to start studying.

    Would really help to keep up with my studying even on busy days and hack the brain's addiction to email/social media to do something useful.

    • mfranzs  6 hours ago

      I do like this idea of integrating SRS into doom-scrolling streams! I've wanted to prototype something similar, but built completely around your SRS cards.

      For email, I think you're right it would need to be frictionless. There are some new email technologies that let you embed dynamic interactions in your email - we might play with that at some point.

      So this is probably hard to do as a plugin tbh, but I'd love to explore eventually as a feature.