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Thanks for the feedback. Going open-source is something we'd consider but right now we're focused on building a tool that people love (which becomes difficult with a bunch of hobbyist developers contributing).

Also closed source isn't always bad. It's no secret that Duolingo has the world's best spaced-repetition algorithm - they will IPO for 2.4 billion soon.

Sorry! Firefox is in the books but we're a small team and don't have the resources to maintain it on Firefox right now.

Thanks! Export to CSV is coming soon.

Thanks for the feedback.

Will let you know when we have reversable cards.

We're not at feature parity with Anki yet. Our focus isn't copying or competing with Anki. iI you just want everything in Anki but better and free, then Zorbi probably isn't the right fit for you (yet!)

For now, we're focusing on helping students learn more effectively through spaced-repetition. Hence our Chrome Extension + Notion Integration. Hope that gives you an idea on where we fit into the "Spaced-Repetition" space.

Also, here is our changelog: https://zorbiapp.notion.site/zorbiapp/What-s-New-a7c0b5d9241...

Glad to hear you liked the app.

Yes. We have cloze deletions. Hit Ctrl + Shift + C for cloze deletions (or hit the "Eye" that says "Hide Text")

RE: the issue with reviews piling up.

- We have some modifications planned for the algorithm that will make this easier. See the Load Balancer addon in Anki + algorithms like Half-life Regression which are making this easier to deal with.

Also we could all do with a "let me take weekends off" feature :)

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Yes - we're working on some features for teachers. If you're a teacher you should get in touch - keen to learn more about what you need.

We plan to add export to CSV/PDF. You'll then be able to import it into ANKI via CSV

No monetization right now - we have some revenue streams that will let us keep the core app free.

Freemium might happen in the future for niche features (e.g. Improved TTS / GPT-3 Flashcard Generation).

No data exporting yet. We plan to add CSV/PDF exports in the next month.

Offline mode is not possible yet - it will be within a couple of months.

Public API + Extendability is 100% planned. If you're interested in developing anything custom then get in touch with us! Might be able to set something up for you.

A lot of it isn't actually copy paste, but just quality-of-life tricks to speed up card creation while going through lecture notes / reading an article.

e.g. we have tooltips+hotkeys that let you append the highlighted text to the front/back.

One-click card creation for language vocab is on our roadmap and will be a focus-area soon. We're focusing on students / teachers right now.

Edit: You may like our guide too: https://zorbi.cards/making-good-flashcards (based on SuperMemo's original article - but summarised for the average K-12 student)

Tool is completely free. We don't plan to paywall the core tool.

You're completely right. Having an understanding of the topic is important. In fact it's stressed on our "Making flashcards" guide: https://zorbi.cards/making-good-flashcards

It's mostly the convenience of always having the ability to create a spaced-repetition flashcard there in your browser.

Our primary use cases are studying for exams and language learning. Hopefully that sheds some more light on how the Chrome extension / Notion integration are used.

Hi HN,

Meet Zorbi - a spaced-repetition tool built for exam study.

Zorbi helps you create flashcards straight from PDFs and Websites or from our Notion integration.

Creating flashcards with Zorbi is crazy fast and crazy easy.

Zorbi is a web-app so you'll be able to study from any device (but we have an Android app & an iOS app coming soon!)

Our mission is to build a full-featured exam study tool that people ACTUALLY want to use

(Combining the power of Anki with the simplicity and flexibility of Notion)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hi HN,

Meet Zorbi - the spaced-repetition tool that you've always wanted.

Zorbi helps you create flashcards straight from PDFs and Websites or from our Notion integration.

Zorbi is a web-app so you'll be able to study from any device (but we have an Android app & an iOS app coming soon!)

Our mission is to build a full-featured exam study tool that people ACTUALLY want to use (Combining the power of Anki with the simplicity and flexibility of Notion)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Great. I think it happened because we trigger a Google Analytics event on that button. Guess it's time to swap to Plausible Analytics...

Oh that's strange. What browser are you using? It's just a Mailchimp list - seems to work on the few browsers I've tested on.

Maybe it is working but the feedback just isn't clear enough? It should output a success message/error message below the Get Studying button. (And then you'll be sent signup details in your email)

Hi HN,

Meet Zorbi - an efficient study tool made for busy people.

The inspiration for this tool came from the fact I exclusively used Anki when I got AWS certified myself. I passed my exam with 92% while also sitting four other university exams.

During that time, I realised that existing study tools and exam prep websites were using inferior learning techniques, and that's why Zorbi was born.

We have a lot of stuff on our roadmap now including:

- Study Schedule Generation (do a quick knowledge quiz and tell us your exam date, we'll tell you what to study and when to study)

- More question formats (MCQ, short answer)

- Analytics

- The ability to buy study kits directly from a marketplace (e.g. get Azure certified, Learn the most common chess openings, Learn basic Japanese)

- Integrations with Notion and Chrome

- Lots of stuff in the works to mitigate the demotivating factors that tools like Anki have :)

Our mission is to build a full-featured study tool that people ACTUALLY want to use (Combining the power of Anki with the simplicity and flexibility of Notion)

Let me know if you're pursuing an AWS certificate - happy to help in any way possible.

Little ballsy, Raises a good point as well. I'll need to keep that in mind when I go for my first FT job

This is going to be great, The worlds top firms are now in direct competition with each other.

Microsoft(Cortana), Amazon(Echo), Apple(Siri), Google(Assistant/Now) and now Samsung with Viv. The possibilites are just endless, the space race netted us a lot of innovation and this should do the same. Competition leads to Innovation

The one image that describes JavaScript perfectly: https://i.imgur.com/qPlBUp5.png

Not much more needs to be said, It amazes me that there are people that actually think JavaScript is an "important" language, It's an archaic mess that has simply been polished over and made to look shiny(as the article states).

If you polish a dirty shoe, It's just a dirty shoe that's shiny.

This, While C and C++ are both very powerful languages and could still be considered the "industry standard"(loosely used) It is definitely not a language that will make your applications work as expected, I would say that C#/Java or higher level scripting languages like Lua or Javascript are languages that will let you make "code it and it works" applications