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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

(domenic.me)
1026 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.447s | 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. christiangenco ◴[18 May 25 19:06 UTC] No.44023614[source]▶
I solve this problem with a system prompt in my LLMs[1].

ChatGPT is the main spot where I'm going to be trying to understand a new concept, so after groking it I'll ask it to make flashcards which I can then just copy and paste into Mochi.

An improvement would be some sort of MCP integration between the LLM and Mochi so it can just add the card directly. I'm sure we'll get there soon.

1. https://gist.github.com/christiangenco/db4b61c315b93fc2a404a...