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Ask HN: File based note taking with spaced repetition?
Text files based note taking has been my prefered way to manage knowledge for several years. NVAlt and markdown files have been a great combination.
As I am also writing technical notes (for example when learning a new programming language or framework) I wish I could combine the file based notes with spaced repetition (similar to Anki).
Does anyone know a system where I can combine the two features (simple text note taking and spaced repetition)?
- givemefive 9y agowhats wrong with anki again?
- mcbetz 9y agoNothing. Anki is great. But I prefer to have general notes in a text only format that I manage via NValt or simply desktop search. Anki gives me an own file format and forces me to manage my knowledge just within Anki.
- givemefive 9y agoIt's easy to write plugins for anki though. Anki's data is just stored in a sqlite db.
- mcbetz 9y agoThanks for the idea. I will look into that.
- givemefive 9y agoMy 2c would be to have a special notation in your text notes that labels the data you want to study later. then just parse that and combined with anki's cards you can generate decks easily.
- davelnewton 9y agoNote that spaced repetition is pretty easy to implement; if your notes are in J Random Format you'd need to munge them anyway.
- fsavard 9y agoThere certainly is, I coded one myself, but I never made any effort to publicize it. http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/ http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/ Basically you take notes like you normally would and the "diffs" of your notes become the elements you will review using spaced-repetition style intervals. Drawbacks: - It's not exactly user friendly in its current implementation. - There isn't any way to give yourself a grade based on how well you remembered a piece of information. - You must take care to write notes in small blurbs before running the "diff" command, otherwise I end up with large chunks of text to revise and I won't review properly. - The lack of question-answer mechanism pretty much bypasses the whole "active recall" principle, or whatever that was called. (Edit: spacing.)