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The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriat

The problem with every app like this is the lack of good quality material. For language learning, I prefer learning whole sentences as examples of an appropriate context. But creating good lists of sentences & translations is cumbersome and just throwing a tool at the "crowd" doesn't automatically get you quality content. That said from all these tools I prefer anki since it has a web-based UI and an android app.

yermierc 11y ago
"lack of good quality material" You definitely are correct and I agree with you 100%. The problem is that you can't just throw a tool at people and expect it to stick - ultimately people need good content to study. For us at https://www.memorangapp.com https://www.memorangapp.com it comes down to two things: (1) Better collaboration and (2) Pre-made expert content. The latter takes a lot of money and time as we've effectively split the tool into a publishing platform and technology platform in parallel. (You can see an example of the expert marketplace of content at https://www.memorangapp.com/premium https://www.memorangapp.com/premium). You can check it out at the website and there's another discussion in this thread. We have a web-based UI and Android/iOS apps currently. Brand new versions of these are being released next month as part of a 2.0 launch.
- steve19 11y ago
  I would happily buy pre-made decks, but for decks I spend hours crafting myself, I want to know I have access them forever and not lose them if you get bought out or go bust. Do you have export functionality?
  - yermierc 11y ago
    Currently you can export the HTML and also as printed sheets. In the next few months we'll enable exporting to formats such as csv/tsv. (This is currently supported in the admin interface, but we haven't made it a user-facing tool yet). If it's any consolation, we already prepaid the next 2 years for AWS and are cash-flow positive. (i.e. not going bust anytime soon).
branchless 11y ago
I agree content is a problem however when learning French I find I benefit most from content I create. The act of creating it makes it more memorable. I'm using anki now to learn French and it's a central pillar of my learning experience for vocab.
capedape 11y ago
There is a lot of decent free material on quizlet, you just have to dig. I prefer to import it into Flashcards deluxe http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ because it's easy and even after years of using Anki, I still can't stand it's interface.

yermierc 11y ago

"lack of good quality material" You definitely are correct and I agree with you 100%. The problem is that you can't just throw a tool at people and expect it to stick - ultimately people need good content to study. For us at https://www.memorangapp.com https://www.memorangapp.com it comes down to two things: (1) Better collaboration and (2) Pre-made expert content. The latter takes a lot of money and time as we've effectively split the tool into a publishing platform and technology platform in parallel. (You can see an example of the expert marketplace of content at https://www.memorangapp.com/premium https://www.memorangapp.com/premium). You can check it out at the website and there's another discussion in this thread. We have a web-based UI and Android/iOS apps currently. Brand new versions of these are being released next month as part of a 2.0 launch.

steve19 11y ago
I would happily buy pre-made decks, but for decks I spend hours crafting myself, I want to know I have access them forever and not lose them if you get bought out or go bust. Do you have export functionality?
- yermierc 11y ago
  Currently you can export the HTML and also as printed sheets. In the next few months we'll enable exporting to formats such as csv/tsv. (This is currently supported in the admin interface, but we haven't made it a user-facing tool yet). If it's any consolation, we already prepaid the next 2 years for AWS and are cash-flow positive. (i.e. not going bust anytime soon).

branchless 11y ago

I agree content is a problem however when learning French I find I benefit most from content I create. The act of creating it makes it more memorable. I'm using anki now to learn French and it's a central pillar of my learning experience for vocab.

capedape 11y ago

There is a lot of decent free material on quizlet, you just have to dig. I prefer to import it into Flashcards deluxe http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ because it's easy and even after years of using Anki, I still can't stand it's interface.