[jmcannon]

Hi HN! I first posted CleverDeck about 2.5 years ago and received a lot of support and encouragement from the community. Since then, I've built it out into a more general purpose spaced repetition system and added seven new 3000-word frequency lists for major languages. I launched the big update today (http://cleverdeck.com/blog) and would love to once again submit it here for feedback. Cheers!

[sbmassey]

What are the advantages over Anki?

[jmcannon]

Two things, I think.

First, I was a long time power user of Anki and don't mean to disparage it, but I think CleverDeck has a much better user experience and design.

Second, we've spent a tremendous amount of time putting together high quality frequency lists (mostly for languages right now) that incorporate professional imagery, native-speaker audio, transliterations (where relevant), and example sentences. Usually, making or piecing together your own decks and cards is the most time-consuming part of using an SRS - and user content is often of dubious quality.

In terms of the spaced repetition, though, CleverDeck and Anki actually use the same algorithm.

[afarrell]

> we've spent a tremendous amount of time putting together high quality frequency lists

I've recently started using Anki, but have only found it useful for taking a mental model that I sat down one weekend and learned, and re-enforcing it. How valuable are these frequency lists for learning something entirely new? If I wanted to use them to say, memorise the api exposed by ActiveRecord, would they be useful, or would they ask me a series of questions that I couldn't yet really put in context?

[arkades]

Translate Bros Anki deck for USMLE into cleverdeck, alongside pathoma and pharm - you'll have every med student in the country signing up annually.

[misiti3780]

where did you get the native speaker audio ?

[jmcannon]

We recorded it ourselves by interviewing and hiring local to us.

[rimliu]

Is that algorithm public?

[adrianN]

Anki is AGPL. https://github.com/dae/anki