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I think there is so much more room upmarket for anything that remotely touches productivity than people realize. There's a market for $360 / yr email clients, and I'd bet there's one for $500 mice, keyboards, webcams and calendar clients too.

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

Sep 15, 2021

Afaic, my biggest software need today is for a proper spaced repetition system. Anki is barely usable, Mochi and Studies are 6/10. Cannot wait for

's Orbit to ship!

For spaced repetition, I’m a heavy user of

@memrise

. I have tried both but haven’t figured out the basis of favor for Anki.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Sep 15, 2021

I think it's mostly about flexibility: purpose-built products like Memrise are great for e.g. language learning, but it's not going to help you write your own prompts about insights from papers you're reading, etc.

Star Simpson

@starsandrobots

Sep 15, 2021

I did get into memrise due to a language learning hobby but have since made my own Memrise courses for other stuff and find this to not be true? Or: how is Anki different/better at this? (My guess: no requirement for a fixed/default reply?)

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Mostly details about Memrise's implementation: - courses must be public - editor clumsy for large collections - lacks a quick-add interface - editor's tiny boxes are clearly designed for vocab ("add words"), hide content beyond first few words - cumbersome image support etc

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Don't get me wrong—Anki's extremely clumsy, too!—but it is clearly designed to be a general-purpose tool in a way that Memrise is not.

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Ah! Maybe things have changed since your last swing-by? I do have unpublished courses. Otherwise yes I have unresolved issues with the editor including these. (cc

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Oh now I'm curious to revisit Memrise! I really tried to use it over multiple years, ending in 2018, but found it to be so limiting at the time. Anki UI is clunky and painful but flexible