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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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655 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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MarceColl ◴[18 May 25 18:56 UTC] No.44023548[source]▶
It's tricky I think, I think it comes down to specialized tools for different systems. I'm building a tool for Japanese in this direction. But of course it doesn't generalize to everything since the content and context extraction is very objective dependent.
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aaldrick ◴[18 May 25 19:03 UTC] No.44023591[source]▶
I agree, it is tricky. But I believe it is possible, see my response in this thread to the user allenu as a middle ground.
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1. MarceColl ◴[18 May 25 19:09 UTC] No.44023630{3}[source]▶
AI definitely helps here (and it's the direction I'm going), although to start exploring the space in a way that makes sense to me (and because it's a problem I have), I've reduced the space into these steps:

  * I wanna be able to watch X in Y language
  * I know these words
  * Help me