Show HN: Hibou – Use spaced repetition to remember what you read
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Any plans for creating notes with cloze deletions? I have been looking for a lightweight implementation of an incremental reading system as described at http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm. Part of the system includes converting what you have read into question/answer material.
I'd love to implement cloze deletions. My thought is that if there is a note associated with a highlight, the user could click an eye icon to toggle the highlight's visibility. Cloze deletions would then be achieved by copy-pasting the highlight and removing the portion that you want hidden.
If you're familiar with the Hibou UI and have other ideas on how I could smoothly integrate cloze deletion, let me know.
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Anyways, I'm logged into two Google accounts, one work and one personal. I want to use Hibou with my personal account, so in the extension I selected my personal one. But when I use the webapp, it tries to log me into my work one, since it's the first one I logged in with on Google in general. So I switch the account in the top right but then the application dies, reloads and doesn't allow me to login again.
And, I can't really figure out how to save the text I've selected, it just stays yellow forever
As I wrote below, updating the Firefox version really depends on how successful the Chrome version becomes and how many people request this.
If you write me an email (will@gethibou.com), I can keep you up to date with my plans to update the Firefox extension.
I'd love to hear the thoughts of the HN community
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But something about it always made me laugh, so that's what I called it.
Anyway, I'm so glad that someone FINALLY got around to building the damn thing! I guess the lesson here is that if you want something done, either do it yourself, or ... be prepared to wait a really long time. ;)
The first mention in the episode notes goes back to 2012 (http://techzinglive.com/page/1077/189-tz-discussion-synthesi...) I think, it mentions spaced repetition and those two were close together.
That episode mentions Gary Wolf's 2008 Wired article [Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm](http://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/), which I think is what inspired me to create Hibou.
This is great. A reminder to go through what I'd normally slap in a bookmark with an intention of "reread later". I'll give it a test-drive.
Thanks for trying it out. Hope you like it.
It's well designed and easy to use which is all I could ask for for an app like this. Thanks for sharing!
Two things I've found that are both minor so I'm not "docking points" ;)
>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.
I think you mean "Highlights you make will be saved here."?
And if I activate Hibou on a page, I can't seem to disable the highlighter without refreshing the page. Pressing Alt+H doesn't get rid of it and neither does clicking the button to deactivate the highlighting cursor. This is an annoyance, but it's unlikely that I'll ever press Alt+H without the intent of highlighting something - so isn't an issue I'd run into day to day.
Clicking onto the page to close the app dialogue and then re-clicking the icon to bring open the options shows that the highlighter reactivates itself. Upon reactivation or clicking the bubble I expect it to remain disabled until I activate it again.
http://i.imgur.com/SQGXKbI.png
Lastly - it should be clarified what benefits "Logging in" gives. How does it make Hibou "even better"?
>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.
Here refers to the Reading list. If you click the highlight button, but don't make any highlights, Hibou will save that page in the reading list (the left-most icon in app.hibou.com). That way, you can go back and highlight it later. You won't get any reminders or notifications until you create your first highlight on that page, at which point it goes from your reading list to your queue (middle clock icon), and of course the highlights are saved. I'll make that clearer.
Thanks for pointing out the disabling bug. If you only use the keyboard shortcut, enabling and disabling should work fine. If you use the popup, disabling seems broken. I'll fix that today.
Logging in allows you to * see your highlights on another device (which means another computer right now, but will soon mean your phone) by going to app.gethibou.com and logging in with the same gmail account. * Store an unlimited number of highlights. Everything is saved locally if you don't log in, and you're limited to 5mb of local storage in an extension, so eventually you'll run out of space (you'll get a warning if you're running out of space). * Sort all highlights by tags. As I roll out features, sometimes things need to be coded on the server and within the extension. In those cases, I'll write the code on the server first, so by logging in you'll get access to newer features. Sorting by tag is the first of those features.
I'll add this to the guide.
It really depends on how successful the Chrome version becomes and how many people request this.
If you write me an email (will@gethibou.com), I can keep you up to date with my plans to update the Firefox extension.
The button didn't work and I'm leaning towards this being a bug. If this is intended, I'll be uninstalling. I do not approve of this behavior in apps.
Install to home screen removes the browser UI, so it won't be native, but it'll be close.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/20/8454613/push-notifications...
Hopefully iOS will support service workers in the future.