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jimmyloi92

19 karma · joined November 25, 2018

Creator of Midterm.app
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jimmyloi92··on Show HN: A note-taking app that helps you to study your notes
Hi,

To sum up, this app is like the combination of Evernote and Quizlet.

Here are some features:

- It is offline-first. The notes are stored in a local database for offline access.

- Support writing Math/Physics formula and chemical equations.

- Syntax highlighting for writing code block.

- Support image occlusion for learning Biology, etc, ...

- Support cloze deletion for active recall.

- Free drawing (hand-writing).

Technology-wise, this app is built using React and Typescript with Electron. And I built it using Vim editor only.

jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Open-source language learning app built with React Native
The project is managed using Lerna so that we can reuse code easily across multiple platform. Currently, Ulangi mobile app is built using React-Native. I also decide to build a desktop version using Electron.

This is an offline-first app meaning it can work without internet; however, some features do require internet, such as searching dictionary or images.

jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
In Ulangi, you can click "add" to add specific vocabulary you want to learn. You can also click "add all" to add all of them from a deck (or set). This way you only choose to learn what is essential to you. I mean it's really painless to manage your own decks (or sets). Moving things around are also easy in Ulangi. Although I only watched the AnkiDroid app from youtube, I'm sure there are many significant differences between Anki and Ulangi.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
If you are interested in the Android version and want to get notified when it comes out.You can subscribe to us at ProductHunt.

https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/ulangi

It should be launched in 2 weeks.

jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Thank you very much. Migrating from Anki is not possible now. Ulangi is free so there is no lost to try it out to see the differences.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Thank you very much. Indonesian and other few languages were initially listed in the app but I decided to remove them to avoid confusing users as I couldn't build all features for them . But I will definitely add more languages as time goes.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Thank you. I'm excited about the Android version too as a creator.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Thank you very much. It is built with React Native. I'm building tests for Android. It should be released in 1 or 2 weeks after all bugs are fixed and it passes all the tests.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Thank you very much. The landing page is bought from themeforest (the name is Enovo landing page) then I slightly modified it. I don't want to spend too much time on the landing page as the main focus is the app. I'm not planning to charge in the future. I will try to get sponsors and donations from Patron. I guarantee to you that it will not disappear because I put a lot of effort on the architecture to make it less costly to maintain.
jimmyloi92··on Show HN: Ulangi App – Make learning vocabulary easier
Hi huhtenberg, Thank you so much for your feedback. I agree that I should not ask user to sign up. The only reason for signing up is that the app knows who to do synchronization/backup to the backend server automatically. In the future versions, I can make synchronization off by default so creating an account is optional.

The app connects to the backend server to fetch existing sets. It just that there are not a lot of them right now. Will definitely add more sets.

Again thank you for feedback. I will take your suggestions in mind. I'm currently testing the Android version. There are too many things to do.