Readit NewsThe recommendation engine has yet to be built so would love to hear more about what you liked best.
Here's an article by the person who discovered SR: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...
To do it effectively, you'd have to have learned everything in advance and processed the knowledge in a format suited to SR. The processing itself makes it ineffective. For many things, 30% retention is good enough. It would cost more to read a book deeply with SR than to read several books shallowly without it.
If only there was a fix for that? Well, spaced repetition was designed to work in tandem with incremental reading. Which is you jump around topics related to your topic and extract the most relevant details.
People seem to have adopted only half of the pair, which is why it feels so inefficient. Supermemo was actually very efficient with this... except that it's reliant on Internet Explorer and now breaks on all modern OSes and doesn't even run on Mac. For some reason, people were able to rewrite SR into Anki, but not the incremental reading part.
However, AI seems to be taking on this role quite well. It's capable of not only incremental reading, but also processing the data into spaced repetition format. But I'll just wait for someone to build this.
On not forgetting, the clear group here are students who will be tested. I'm expecting large changes in education in the next 10 years away from testing and more toward experiential learning with clearly defined outcomes, which are then graded/measured.
So while I use SR to learn and test myself, I'm trying to think through the use cases for a different future that isn't 100% likely to materialize.
And IRL you rarely need to bluntly memorize stuff, even in foreign languages.
However, the top comment from a recent article here [0] put it into perspective. For a lot of people, regularly being reminded of the fundamentals helps them overcome whatever prevents them from grokking something from the outset. For really difficult concepts (something that varies for everyone), I believe that regular memorization and repetition can help you learn over time.
I think there's a credibility/trust issue, though, with taking other people's card decks and using them, assuming the info is accurate.
I always, without exception, will sign up with a username & password. I would never use a"Log in with". To me, if I am logging in through a different company then it is that company who has control, not me. There are tales here and elsewhere when Google has nuked someone's account. That's bad, but if you logged in with Google on other sites then you are completely screwed. Same applies to other companies.
I won't be using the Apple Passwords app.
Compared to Notion where you need to organize your stuff (if you're using it for private notes) - Remindful takes this extra work away.
You just store anything and then ask to recall it back.
This is based on the assumption that many people are not great at organizing their data.
Does this make sense to you?
To me, the value proposition would be anything incremental you can provide above and beyond simple search, but also something that isn't broadly accessible through other means (web search, GPT-like solutions, etc)
>> I'm guessing this is in the category of "Productivity Apps", the closest competitors seems to be apps like Evernote
This is the part that stood out to me most. You seem unsure of your competitors and so you'll have limited understanding of your market and target customers. I'd start by validating the user's problem and then ensuring the product does that.
As a heavy Notion user, I'd also be curious how I can leverage what I've already built there.
I'd say this kind of recommendation is not hard to do. Pocket simply went to the dark side for monetization reasons.
This is why I wanted to look for a decentralized alternative that can be self hosted, yet communicates with other nodes for recommendations.