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Show HN: I'm making an integrated learning tool, like Anki and Workflowy in one

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5 pointsSunghoYahng11 comments

Man, what are the odds that I'd show HN an Anki + notes app [1] at almost the same time as someone else?

Some feedback: I don't really understand what your app does, to be honest. Like, I understand Anki, and workflowy seems to be a nested list/task management app.

But why do the two need to be connected? How often do you memorize nested lists?

Not trying to be rude, just honestly want to know the use case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26388502

Thanks for the feedback! I was also embarrassed that there are so many ideas that combine Spaced Repetition with a note-taking tool.

But nonetheless, I still think LearnObit is the most special and the best of them. In any case, to explain your question, in the tree structure used by this app, a leaf is a card (so it's not about memorizing a nested list). Like this: Fruit> Apples> Taste: Sweet

And in the process of making the user memorizing, this app shows cards in clusters according to their position in the tree and the predicted rating and that's the point.

I'm a heavy user with Anki, and I get a lot of value out of it.

Yet I never actually recommended it to anyone, because it's basically unusable unless you're willing to tinker a lot, and put up with its very unintuitive UI.

I've had a look at your app, and it looks like a way more complicated version of Anki. I think that will put off many people from even trying it out

The reaction when this app was first released was that this was so complicated. But I have been trying to mitigate it all the best... I would appreciate it if you can give me a feedback after trying it out.

I have 10k+ cards, and 100k+ reviews, and I've used Anki for years. It's a professional tool, and while I hate basically every part of it, it's reliable, and doesn't do unexpected things. I'm not willing to bet on a tool, that's pushing an unskippable bunny in a suit to my face that's animating with 10FPS.

You're clearly onto something: Roam and new PKM tools are more popular than ever, Remnote is even hiring people. You just need to figure out how to present your workflow ideas.

I see. I am sorry that you are not willing to try new tool while you hate the old thing.

I try lot's of new tools: Remnote, Mochi cards, different srs plugins for Roam and Obsidian.

I tried to check out LearnObit as well, but a rabbit, seriously?

Is that the fault of the app? The rabbit does nothing wrong. However, I am confident in the usability and functionality of LearnObit. Perhaps the most similar to LO is RemNote, but more than that, more than any other app.

> Is that the fault of the app? The rabbit does nothing wrong

Look, you're free to put whatever in your app. If that's a one minute long 10fps animation of a rabbit in a suit, with a Coelho quote, all the more power to you, but I need you to understand, that makes it hard to take it seriously.

I understand that the rabbit looks like that way to some people. It is a way to grab attention in the internet world where being ignored is the default... But confidence in the functionality and innovation of this app is still.

If you’re a student, you must have heard of spaced repetition. It’s a theory that says you need to review a topic over and over until you know it. When you don’t know it, you space out your review. LearnObit is an app that will help you review faster. It’ll show you what you should know and when you should know it. It has been quite useful for me in learning new stuff. I would recommend at least trying it.

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