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What makes this different than the dozens of other apps that have come and gone? I’m not being mean. The flash card market is one of the most saturated markets, if not the most, in language learning. Many apps do offer frequency lists built right in, even more allow you to share pre-made frequency decks. How will you choose the words that are most frequent? Corpuses vary WIDELY and are not suited for all learners and their goals, especially after the first 1,000 words. Will you provide cloud support? Web support? Are you certain ads alone will cover the expenses? Are you willing to cover those expenses for yourself indefinitely?

Why would someone use a flash card app with ads when they could use one without ads for free? A bunch exist. All of them have frequency lists in many languages.

I’m not trying to crush a dream. But this post is one of the most common posts on this subreddit. I’ve only seen ONE project come to fruition, which is actually the SRS app I use and pay for, Mochi

How did they convince me to give up Anki? By offering something significantly unique and different. At this point, I don’t see you offering anything that Can’t already be found. Again, I’m not saying this to disappoint you but to motivate you to think this through further and come up with an awesome idea that will satisfy a need and compel people to drop their current flash card system.

I'm also creating an app for it. I've found data entry into Anki to be prohibitively time consuming. Check out mochi cards, might suit your needs.

Edit: I have no relation to mochi cards, but I think it's a step in the right direction.

You can do something very similar with MochiMochi, which is a markdown based spaced repetition app that also supports this kind of linked note taking (zettelkasten). It also supports things like auto furigana and text to speech.

My advice would be to just ditch the pre-made decks and start making your own cards. Find some relatively easy material like NHK easy or some manga geared towards a younger audience like Detective Conan (名探偵コナン).

As for the content of the card, I would put the Japanese word on the front and quiz yourself on both the meaning and pronunciation. Put the sentence on the back to remind yourself of how it's used in context.

I wrote a fairly detailed blog post some time ago about the method I personally use and have had great success with. It's not specific to Japanese, but should give a good idea of where to start. (I should probably update it, or add a specific post for Japanese soon)

Hey, I maybe this helps!

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I found out that if you import your Anki decks into Mochi (https://mochi.cards/) and then you export them from Mochi as Markdown, Mochi export each card as just one Markdown file :).

This way is super easy and convenient to migrate your anki cards to obsidian :).

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Hope it helps :D

I found out that you can import your Anki decks into Mochi and when you export those same decks from Mochi as Markdown each note becomes one markdown file (ergo, what you need to import them easily to obsidian :) )

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https://mochi.cards/

Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I also made an electron app with clojurescript to help me with language learning [0]. While not specifically for language learning, it's a spaced repetition app like Anki, which is pretty popular with the language learning community. If you have any questions about using cljs with electron or anything, feel free to email me or message me on twitter.

[0] https://mochi.cards/

Recently I discovered the technique of spaced repetition (flashcards method) and was well prepared for several exams thanks to it. This works great for memory training, especially if it's difficult to remember some tedious information. For this I use the Mochi app which makes it easy to take notes and flashcards using Markdown. Maybe you'll find it useful too.

One of the great tips for studying (ADHD or not) is to use the space repetition method. You can check out Anki or mochi app. I have ADHD too and they help me a lot with my materials.

Sometimes we tend put off work just because our own perception of the task's difficulty prevents us from even starting. A task doesn't have to be overwhelming, but rather a task is avoided because we prefer instant gratification rather than a building sense of accomplishment. To avoid the temptation you need to do the following:

1. Set a stopwatch and record when you start a task and stop a task. I suggest using toggl.com. Tasks include breaks, so if you decide to browse Facebook when you need to be working on something else then stop your timer and start it again while you are browsing.

2. Remove all distractions and use a penalty for when you do get distracted. On a laptop, removing your browser or keeping up a site blocker won't always work, so rather penalize yourself based on the time you spend away, for example if you were doing work then started browsing the internet for 30 min, then put away your laptop and do chores for 30 min. This incentivizes you to spend less time on the internet in order to save time on actual work.

3. Break up your task into steps (spend 5-10 min doing this.) Then work on that step for a small interval until that one step is completed. I suggest using the Pomodoro technique for this step.

4. Set your PC to grayscale. If your PC has no colors it makes videos and social media less appealing. This won't affect readable media, so you can now focus on your ebook or pdf.

5. Schedule your breaks. Yes I know scheduling is hard, but it is the most essential part of productivity. Spend time planning out your day, including your breaks. Use toggle.com to keep a record of how much time you spend on what and to better estimate completion times.

6. Use mochi.cards to take notes and create flashcards with spaced intervals. This way you can avoid cramming.

7. Follow r/productivity or other subreddits to find other tips.

Nice write up. As it turns out I've been experimenting with my own version of srs as https://mochi.cards and have found myself incorporating more and more of the ideas you're talking about in the article. Users already have the ability to "generate cards from note," but for me, the ideal extension of that is to be able to embed / integrate cards directly into the notes. That way students can either create cards as they're taking notes, or download and read/study the notes of other (professors maybe?).

Another cool (and free software) for taking notes and preparing study/flashcards is https://mochi.cards/

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And it's not a screenshot on the landing page, it's an actual, usable version of the app to test it!