Comment by 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.

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.

  • 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.