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This is an intriguing idea; kind of like the method used in "Lingua Latina per se ilustrata" but automatic and with rich media. This is definitely possible, though the domain space is quite large, some tradeoffs would have to be made that might stifle the exact vision.

Yeah, I just tried it with the pro subscription, it is quite excellent; this might be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again!

I tried Remnote yesterday for the first time, after another user in this same thread recommended it.

I put a paper in, and clicked a sentence and ... it is somewhat magical. This is exactly what I meant, somewhere to have PDFs etc. and an easy way to make cards immediately.

I bought pro with AI, and then I put a full paper in. I asked the AI to make flashcards of the whole paper; it worked so well, it's basically SuperMemo's original idea of incremental reading.

Looking forward to using it more, thanks for your hard work.

Not sure I understood the gist, but let me try summarise what you do generally (i.e. not just for language learning).

- Instead of flashcards, you read content/write notes. - You tag said content in some way which allows you to understand how difficult it is. - When in "review" mode, you essentially choose what to reread based on the difficulty you are feeling has the most impact right now.

Okay on first try, this seems promising, I'll try the pro sub tomorrow properly and take it for a proper spin, but:

- I read a lot of PDFs. I can click a sentence and have it suggest cards, or fill my own.

That's already a great start on the "space in between".

I agree, it is tricky. But I believe it is possible, see my response in this thread to the user allenu as a middle ground.

Yes, I do something like this now. It definitely does do the job. I just wonder if there could be something more, something smoother perhaps, and the API access could do the trick.

Thank you - I hadn't considered this.

+1 SM is really interesting. Supermemo.guru (URL) is a fascinating resource written by a fascinating person (the creator of Supermemo), but the software is so unusable that it immediately shoots itself in the foot (or head). I don't think anyone should ever use it, but people should take away from it interesting concepts that they can use when writing new software.

A great shame, I see your point. I guess it comes down to the developer treating their product as something that could "help people" or something that "pays the bills". Hopefully the former would lead them to caring enough to spend the extra time for these significant QoL improvements.

I agree, we need something with a caring UX which encourages habit-forming. I feel like this space is very underexplored, especially considering the 1000s of note-taking adjacent apps made in the last decade.

No problem - I'm happy to help. I spend way too much time thinking about this type of stuff.

I'm glad this has resonated, good luck with the prototypes. Let me know if you ever want more feedback.

Fair point, please see my comment in response to allenu, in this same thread, for a detailed view.

I did not mean to glaze over this aspect, I am aware this is very important. I can not and do not use AI for automating flashcards for this reason alone. But, I think my point still stands, getting information from one disparate app into another adds a lot of friction (saving it somewhere, copy and pasting and yada yada) to something that (I believe) should be as easy as possible. We have 1 click instant payment, but I can't have 1 click get this into some sort of inbox in Anki ready to flashcard-ify?

To be honest, I have a whole frustration with apps and windows that I'm still trying to word, but fundamentally all we are doing when we are "computing" is moving information around. I wish that information was a first class citizen at the OS level that could be leveraged by any app immediately. Utopian view but this stuff ain't gonna think about itself.

Thank you - I'll give it a try!