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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

(domenic.me)
625 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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keiferski ◴[18 May 25 12:38 UTC] No.44020946[source]▶
I’ve been using Anki for about a decade now, and as far as I’m concerned, the only real improvements needed are design/UI based. It is functionally irrelevant if the algorithm is optimized or not when the actual user interface seems boring to potential users. While I do like that Anki has power user options, it’s also very unintuitive to the average person just looking into it.

Which is really a shame, as the spacing effect itself is such an underrated aspect of human learning that it almost feels like cheating.

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1. cosmic_cheese ◴[18 May 25 15:09 UTC] No.44021951[source]▶
My biggest gripe with it is how clunky the editor window is. That’s the main part that’s due for a redesign in my opinion.

It has other oddities too though, like the tab bar in the main window that doesn’t act like a tab bar. It should also really have two button mode (Again and Good only) for the review screen as a built in option, too — the addon that adds this is very popular and it’d be dead simple to implement.