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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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699 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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aaldrick ◴[18 May 25 16:25 UTC] No.44022472[source]▶
I see a lot of discussion about SRS, and I think most can agree they have improved.

What I would like to see covered is a more vague area, but almost more important:

It’s the space in between reading/understanding something and the SRS. There are almost no standalone tools dedicated to creating flashcards easily from existing programs (web browser, PDF readers etc.) into popular SRS (Anki, Mochi etc.). They should work almost as OS additions to make everything feel native and frictionless; I don’t need another standalone tool that does X Y and Z, I just need some sort of pipe into an SRS that is Mac friendly and does the job whilst not being in the way.

If someone knows of such a tool, I would love to hear about it.

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1. vjerancrnjak ◴[18 May 25 18:35 UTC] No.44023410[source]▶
I’d say a missing thing is figuring out the order in which cards have to be shown.

Showing schlafen before ausschlafen, or contextually simpler cards before more complex ones.

Optimizing blindly easy medium hard and next time to show a card is probably very far away from efficient learning.

If the process is inspected, most of the forever knowledge that I acquired I heard once and internalized.