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Dropping a product recommendation -- my favorite spaced repetition + notetaking + learning app: https://www.remnote.com/ https://www.remnote.com/ I'm not affil
by golly_ned 1y ago
Dropping a product recommendation -- my favorite spaced repetition + notetaking + learning app: https://www.remnote.com/ https://www.remnote.com/
I'm not affiliated, just a big booster. For those familiar with Anki it follows the same conventions. It has an excellent system for managing cards. Adding cards is as easy as writing a bullet point: [front of card] == [back of card]. They got the ergonomics right and clearly know the space very well; it has the right keyboard accessibility and shortcuts and navigation. It supports the basics you'd expect like cloze deletions (fill-in-the-blank), image occlusion (cover up parts of an image). It manages assets like PDFs and images. It uses FSRS (the best SRS scheduling algorithm atm).
It has the best (optional) AI integration into a product I've seen except for the usual code-generation suspects. I'm learning spanish and can type into a bullet point something like "el vaquero ==< [tab]" and have the translation automatically generated for me into a forward and reverse card. I'm learning math and can cloze-delete parts of latex equations; the AI can very frequently generate excellent and accurate latex equations, which I can make small edits to as I'd like. These kinds of bonuses make taking live flashcard-based notes during my spanish tutoring sessions and math-based parts of classes feasible.
It's less low-level configurable than Anki and more "works out of the box" with a smaller extension system. I've had enough of trying to fiddle with Anki. Overall just excellent -- I'm not affiliated in any way. Development is very fast. Release note videos are incredible, minor updates occur ~weekly. I've run into a few bugs, especially when I was traveling overseas where internet isn't strong, but overall very pleased with it.
- fsargent 1y agoThanks for recommending it! I’ve had the same issues with Anki and am shocked there aren’t more clones considering it’s open source. Excited to try remnote.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoMy astroturfing radar is going into overdrive from this comment chain.
- golly_ned 1y agoI'm not astroturfing. There's been a dearth of quality products around efficient learning. There's Anki, then there's Mochi, a slightly more modern Anki. That's it. It's wild to me how little selection there is in this space.
- theappsecguy 1y agoInsanely expensive. 18$ usd per month?? I’m going to guess it’s also an Electron monstrosity
- mfranzs 1y agoRemNote founder here - the free version has unlimited cards and notes! You can upgrade to the Pro version for $10/month if you want tables, PDF uploads, and more. The $18 version is our most expensive plan that includes AI credits as well.
- NewsaHackO 1y agoIt’s amazing how many people try to make an inferior clone of Anki and profit off of it. The only people who ever fall for it are ones with low computer literacy.
- collyw 1y agoThe majority of the population has low computer literacy
- toss1 1y agoYup. As H. L. Mencken observed in 1926 [0]: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the North American public." Perhaps there should be an event next year to note the centenary of that astute observation, which seems to have aged quite well. [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/01/underestimate/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/01/underestimate/
- velcrovan 1y agoWhat about this is inferior? I'm a software developer (that is to say, not low in computer literacy), and I've bounced off Anki a few times, the UX is terrible. I haven't used RemNote any more than you have, but unlike Anki it seems actually care about reducing UI friction.
- golly_ned 1y agoIt's not an Anki clone and I don't have low computer literacy. I'm a senior staff ML engineer at a large public company. I don't have the time or patience that Anki requires to make it a passable product. Not a childless student without real responsibilities and all the time in the world.
- christiangenco 1y agoI'm a big fan of Mochi[1] (also unaffiliated) after getting frustrated with the clunkiness of Anki. Mochi has great native apps on macOS and iOS (and maybe more?), the cards are formatted in markdown so I can generate them with LLMs with a custom system prompt, and I just found out today they have an API so I might try my hand at getting an LLM to push new cards on its own via. an MCP server. 1. https://mochi.cards/ https://mochi.cards/
- sunnybeetroot 1y agoMochi is excellent but the apps aren’t native (albeit they are better than many non-native apps)
- britannio 1y agoI used this throughout my computer science degree, and it worked a charm. Now I rely on it as a solid personal knowledgebase.
- whereistejas 1y agoAfter using remnote for months, I eventually switched to Mochi (Anki, but prettier). My personal experience was: - it has a clunky and complicated UI: interactions with blocks/line was clunky on mobile and web. - The table UI for showing your cards, can also be very limiting. - Converting blocks to cards by adding `<==>` is an ingenious idea. - The use of "AI" is really over-rated.
- golly_ned 1y agoThere were a few rough edges for me with the block-based editing. I chocked it up to me never having used a block-based editor with any frequency. I stay away from some of the AI features: - One feature generates additional context for a flashcard as you practice. This burned up my AI credits like crazy and added nothing but distraction to my practice. - Another AI feature for PDF summarizing just didn't work. It made a claim immediately and clearly contradicted by text in the exact area I was highlighting. The cases where it works, I absolutely love.