[ahoskins]

I do agree is Anki is GREAT and has proven to work for those who make the effort to learn the UX, and make the continuous effort to use it. But my goal with Supermind is to bring this to more people who would find Anki / SuperMemo too difficult / too high-friction (which is a lot of people afaik). I'm trying to integrate this system into a browser as cleanly as possible.

[divan]

I've been using Anki for more than a decade, and while SuperMemo-based spaced repetition definitely works for me, I've been frustrated by the implementation itself - UX is far from being good and tons of possible use cases across differrent platforms just aren't possible.

For example, as I'm using Anki mostly for learning words in foreign languages I read in articles/books, I want to remove a friction of adding a word to the deck, ideally making it a single click action. As the very least, I want Anki to add an entry into contextual menu in my iOS/MacOS system, and that's not currently possible.

Another thing – I'm willing to write a better cross-platform UI (using Flutter, for example), without reimplementing the whole codebase. Actually, I tried this once in 2010 while making Anki version for Nokia N900 (Maemo/Linux, using PyQT), and the code was quite a mess and quite hard to port.

Not to mention that I love to recommend apps that work for me, and Anki for iOS costs almost prohibitively high price of ~25$ (for whatever beliefs Anki author has about iOS users), which makes it a no-go for recommendations.

I wish there was a standardised set of protocols/formats for decks/cards and spaced repetition apps.