Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
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HN comment orderA friend and I decided to build an Anki replacement a few years ago, it's now located at https://www.memorangapp.com and has a loyal following of 10s of thousands of users. Anki is a great tool and has a wide variety of content on Ankiweb, however the ecosystem doesn't allow for any collaboration or the ability to keep content up to date (aside from manually editing decks, but where for example can you suggest a correction?). Memorang was designed from the…
A lot of people point out other software. The whole point is the algorithm [1] which how Anki schedules your cards. It is based on Supermemo's [2], and improved a lot over the years, so I think it's the most optimal from all of the SRS software's out there. Also I think Anki has a very simple UI, not sure how people can find it complicated. You just add cards, and by review you press a button, that's all. Cards…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12-18 | Anki - learn anything | alexholehouse | 3 | 0 |
| 2013-09-21 | Friendly, intelligent flash cards | webhat | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-05-09 | Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcardsFirst breakout | amjd | 293 | 135 |
| 2015-12-13 | Anki – a program which makes remembering things easyBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | sonabinu | 398 | 210 |