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To help with language learning I tried Anki, didn't like the UX and ended up writing my own SRS, from scratch.

One thing that becomes very obvious very quickly is that all cards derived from the same piece of information should be treated as a group. The last thing you'd want is to see "a cow / ?" quickly followed by "una mucca / ?". This is just pointless.

So while I appreciate the in-depth write-up by the author, I must say that its main insight - that the scheduling needs to account for the inter-card dependencies - lies right there on the surface. The fact that Anki doesn't support this doesn't make it any less obvious.



I didn’t like the UX either but love everything else about it.

I put together and built a Raycast extension for Anki for this reason: https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki

Using Raycast keyboard friendly UI makes Anki a lot more fun and friction-less.

If you use a Mac - give it a go.

Apologies if some features are missing - I’ve been procrastinating on patching it with some requested features


Yeah, sorry, I don't like yours either :)


No problem :)

Side note: if anyone else is reading this and likes it - contributors are welcome.

There’s a lot of improvements to be made and I could use the help as I’m quite busy with a few other projects at the moment




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