Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and WorkFlowy in one

Hey. For the past 2 years, I have been working on LearnObit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnobit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnobit.com</a>).<p>When I first started to learn coding, I used Anki and the old tried-and-tested Spaced Repetition algorithm, but it wasn&#x27;t suitable for more complex, general topics like Mathematics or Physics. Because of that, Spaced Repetition has always been widely overlooked despite its proven effectiveness in learning.<p>I wanted to unlock this effectiveness for a wider audience by building LearnObit, a tool that combines tree-structure note-taking tools with Spaced Repetition so that you can apply it to more than just simple fact pairs.<p>And now it even has the feature to export data to Anki, so you can leave with your data when you decide not to use it! (Of course I don&#x27;t want anyone to use it, but I couldn&#x27;t help it, because people wouldn&#x27;t start using it without this in the first place...)<p>Anyway, I&#x27;ll be here anytime if you have any questions for me. Thanks for your time.

I think rather than having a playground, you should just put some sample nodes &#x2F; lists in the Organizing section that people can delete later if they want to. As an example Notion (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;</a>) populates your workspace with examples from the start, with mock data filled in. That way you can click around with existing data, see how it works, and delete it if you don&#x27;t want it.<p>I&#x27;m trying to see how the memorize function works and because I have no entries in Organising it won&#x27;t work. I see there&#x27;s examples in Playground but I can&#x27;t see what they look like when trying to Memorize. I spent a few minutes trying to work out if it&#x27;s possible which was pretty frustrating, and it looks like it isn&#x27;t, and if it is possible then I have no idea how to do it. Having to invest time into creating realistic mock questions is a pain when there are some right there but just out of reach. The Playground is essentially just Workflowy and doesn&#x27;t let you experience the rest of the app, it&#x27;s not a good experience.<p>That being said, I really like this idea as this reflects how I used to organise a lot of my notes. I&#x27;ll definitely give it a shot and look forward to see how it progresses.

Do you have any plans for bidirectional linking like with Roam Research? It seems like both projects are going towards a similar end goal

I love the idea of combining an outliner and an SRS. I don&#x27;t love the idea of needing a new special editor for them, and a new siloed data store for them.<p>Now, if this were an SRS that read my existing data (like from Notes.app, org-mode, OmniOutliner, or Excel) and presented it as an SRS, that would be very cool.

I tried to use the &quot;Tell me anything&quot; button in anonymous mode, but it didn&#x27;t work.<p>Organizing made sense, but I really wanted to see how the spaced repetition worked from one of the examples, and couldn&#x27;t figure out how to do that. then, I tried making some tests in organization, and I got &quot;Some error occured&quot; with a few options to refresh. However, I couldn&#x27;t see the space repetition module. The console had the error ReferenceError: &quot;Intercom is not defined&quot;<p>I like the idea conceptually, but I found it hard to translate the organization to memorization without seeing an example. I think a video or tutorial front and center is really what I want.

I liked the sound of an anki alternative, but it&#x27;d have to still be free software and also not need webengine&#x2F;electron to be a big improvement, imo. I&#x27;m not seeing a link to source here after a quick glance...

Hey dude; nice stuff. Just letting you know I can&#x27;t auth with Google from the desktop version.<p>As a side comment, did you use anything outside of pure js on that Electron app ? It seems pretty neat and fast.

There&#x27;s a typo on the About Pricing page that says &#x27;I will likely do this thorugh a subscription model&#x27;<p>Should have been &#x27;through&#x27; a subscription model. Like others already pointed out, allowing to play around the app without having to create an account is great. Good work. Cheers!

Feels like more and more there&#x27;s a ton of smart people converging on ideas. I wrote a flashcard web app with WF as the filesystem. Right now it&#x27;s very powerful as a personal use system, and I&#x27;ve considered making it public.

It could be cool to take all the FAQs you have in separate blog posts and make them into a &#x27;tree&#x27; format, so that I can learn about your product while learning about your product... if that makes sense

There is a gpl version software polar bookshelf exists and its quite good <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;</a>

I had the same idea: roam with anki.<p>My own journal data app (old and broke) had a reread feature that was instrumental in reactivating my learning and progress.<p>Looking forward to trying this on desktop!

Since nobody&#x27;s pointed it out, I&#x27;ll just say that &quot;Obit&quot; makes me think of &quot;obituary,&quot; which may not be an association you want to have.

If anyone still sees this: My product was featured on HN. Now what? I no longer have communities to post to.

Thank you for creating this and posting this on reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;anki.<p>What are your future goals with LearnObit?

What license?

Any plans on making a video demo?

which UI technologies did you use if I may ask?

I think you software is infected.