gregv comments on Spaced Repetition Database for A Human's Guide to Words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2011 06:45:43PM 1 point [-]

Has anyone gotten the (pricey - $25) Anki iphone app? Does the app still make it easy to look up the Less Wrong deck? Alternately, has someone tried importing the deck into some (cheaper) SRS app?

Comment author: phob 13 January 2011 01:12:49AM 3 points [-]

I have the Anki iphone app. Considering the utility and convenience it provides, the price is negligible. For comparison, at a private college, tuition/# of classes ~= $200 / class, so as I use anki for schoolwork, it easily pays for itself.

If you do any sort of utility calculation for products you use, a lot of times convenience will trump price by orders of magnitude. This is one of those cases.

Comment author: gwern 10 January 2011 10:49:27PM *  3 points [-]

Anki decks can be exported into the lowest-common-denominator format among SRS apps: tab-delimited text files. They're supported by pretty much every app worth using, and if they aren't, easy to transform them into something the app does understand.

From the discussions on the Mnemosyne-proj-user mailing list which I didn't pay any attention to, there are apparently a number of free SRS apps for the iPhone.

(What isn't usually all that portable is the markup for formatting, images, audio, etc. But I don't think any of these cards are likely to involve much of that.)

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 11 January 2011 05:08:00AM *  1 point [-]

Anki decks can be exported into . . . tab-delimited text files.

If someone were to post a link to Divia's Guide to Words as tab-delimited text, I would look through it.

Comment author: divia 11 January 2011 05:32:46AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: olimay 11 January 2011 09:04:52AM *  0 points [-]

I know a full featured app is much better, but Anki Online is completely free, and accessible via most browsers--although it requires an internet connection. Any deck you sync from the desktop (or other) version of Anki should be available via AnkiOnline.

Comment author: shokwave 11 January 2011 05:45:14AM 0 points [-]

Wow. I have a free Anki app on my Android phone.