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Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of
by aeto 9y ago
Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of what I've added on a spaced repetition schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days into the future) for optimal retention
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-mind/dejecgndbecimagkaefkfdaedaimamji https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...
- vollmond 9y agoThis is really interesting. What are some of the things you have used this for? One of the examples is a quotation, which makes lots of sense. What else could it be useful for? Formulas, maybe?
- aeto 9y agoI'm trying to expand my Chinese vocab, so I usually do something like "<characters> translation" eg. 拓展 expand
- yorwba 9y agoFor that I use Anki with the Chinese Support plugin, which is honestly pretty great. It does not only have characters and translation, but also pronunciation both as Pinyin (I think other romanizations can be configured) and audio (which plays on review, great for training your ear and checking your pronunciation), as well as measure words and characters in the opposite set (simplified vs traditional). And it can fill all of those automatically. Then there's stuff built-in to Anki, like statistics that let me know I've learned precisely 2521 unique characters in total, which is great for motivation. (The numbers must go up!) I guess you will want to keep using your homegrown program, but maybe this can give you some inspiration for features to implement.
- aoeuasdf1 9y agoFor formulas, I find Anki to be pretty effective, because it forces me to recall the formula. I also try to put proofs and proof-techniques into Anki so I can maintain knowledge of an area without using it frequently.
- jmkni 9y agoThat's awesome!
- exception_e 9y agoThis is AMAZING. I am going to use this for its intended purpose because I love passive learning. I also intend on using it as a tool to keep me in check with nags with things that don't end up on my immediate schedule: "Have you written the unit tests for that open source project yet?". Having that show up a few times in random days or months would be great.
- aoeuasdf1 9y agoReally cool idea, thanks for sharing!
- Abundnce10 9y agoJust downloaded your extension, it looks great! What does the stack look like for this product? I'd love to hear how you went about building this extension.
- aeto 9y agogoogle extensions are basically all javascript :p and the styling is from https://semantic-ui.com/ https://semantic-ui.com/ backend is node planning to make a simple mobile app so i can save stuff from my phone too. i can do a more detailed writeup later on!
- kristofferR 9y agoMan, this is awesome. Now that Firefox has become so vastly better than Chrome (who would have expected that a year ago?) you should port it to Firefox too.
- aeto 9y agointeresting. ive heard this a lot. will port it
- aj_g 9y agointerested in this as well. is there any way I can be notified if you do so?
- aeto 9y agoyes, i will be sure to ping you guys here
- Kinrany 9y agome too, thanks
- spurcell93 9y agome 3
- petey283 9y agoWould you please alert me as well?
- Bromskloss 9y agoWe should automate this somehow…
- chestervonwinch 9y agoCool idea. I will probably highlight way too many unimportant-but-seemed-neat-at-the-time facts from Wikipedia, but I'm going to try it out.
- aeto 9y agohah i do this all the time. added a "delete" button to get rid of the useless-in-hindsight stuff
- jcun4128 9y agoSucks extensions don't work on phones (Chrome) I was doing a similar thing just grabbing topics when you go down a rabbit hole to remember random stuff you learn.
- aeto 9y agomobile app in the plan
- bobosha 9y agohttps://www.memomize.com/ https://www.memomize.com/ is a similar extension.
- aeto 9y agothks for the link. i think main difference is that harvest uses spaced repetition for passive learning, i dont want to see every thing every time i open a new tab. i like looking at my momentum backgrounds :)
- travbrack 9y agoThanks for sharing. I tried it out and it looks great. I had a couple issues. Firstly it has me sign into my Google account on a browser window with no address bar. The only way I could actually verify that it wasn't a fishing site was to use the dev tools. After that it signed me out after a few hours. Hope this helps.
- mijoharas 9y agoHow do you pop the dev tools up on that window? I tried but can't (same thoughts as you, without verifying it myself, not gonna sign in...) Hitting F12 or Ctrl+Shift+C on the popup page do nothing. EDIT: chrome on linux Version 59.0.3071.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
- travbrack 9y agoUsing Mac Chrome I was given the option to "inspect" on the right click menu.
- aeto 9y agounderstand completely about the google signin. will look into how to display the URL as well to give people peace of mind. one day soon will add a dedicated authentication service.. this was just the easiest way to get up and running. getting signed out happens for a variety of reasons, probably unrelated to the extension itself. ill keep an eye out though to see if there is a systematic reason thks for the feedback mate!