Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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.

> It’s the space in between reading/understanding something and the SRS. ...If someone knows of such a tool, I would love to hear about it.

I have a slightly different system I'm developing:

Rather than reviewing with flashcards, review with actual content:

1. Tag the content with the words and grammar concepts

2. Estimate the difficulty [1] for you of each word or grammar concept -- the difficulty being essentially the inverse of your familiarity graphs in this article.

3. Choose content to read which balances difficulty and the impact on learning.

Since reviewing something you're about to forget has more impact than learning something new, "spaced repetition" falls naturally.

And instead of spending your review time going through flash cards, you spend your review time reading content in the target language.

[1] If you know the details of the FSRS algorithm, I'm using "difficulty" here differently than they do in their algorithm.