I tried a little Japanese (the second language I know best). Not sure where the content comes from but the translations were wrong, the vocabulary was strange, and otherwise the cards did not work out for me. Seems like they were auto generated via AI or google translate or something, in any case they were not accurate or natural sounding. Maybe other languages are better but I wouldn't know enough to tell.
Anki is one of my favorite pieces of software ever so I was definitely willing to try yours. Seems like the feature that defines your app is auto-generation of a card / set of cards. Didn't see any way to create your own card, all you can do is put in an English word and get the automatically generated card added to your deck. So if that's not working well the entire thing crumbles.
Interesting idea that might have a future if it finds significant improvement. I think if it was ironed out I would still prefer it to spit out an anki compatible deck that I can use in Anki itself instead of in the ricotta web app.
If you have iOS/macOS, I've made a native app for mining Japanese web/ebook content into Anki (or Manabi Flashcards which is getting FSRS soon too): https://reader.manabi.io
I'm currently working on adding first-class Mokuro integration for manga mode, bilingual user-provided or Whisper-generated captions for video, an HDMI-input mode with realtime lookups, and local/BYOK AI features. And once I add Yomichan dictionary support, I will be able to go multilingual too. I also have a beta available via the Discord that resolves some bugs that I'm trying to release very shortly.
I've added Anki integration and am working on WaniKani + JPDB sync. Hopefully more service integrations soon too. I like to have nice defaults but let users keep their flashcards wherever they like. Ricotta too if there were an API.
All fair points of feedback. I use it for latin languages so getting a take on the quality of other languages is something I'll work on. Could you give me an example that it gave you that missed the mark?
I could have it output the deck into Anki I like that idea. I wrote a script that did this from CSV but it didn't have audio so I moved to this making the first gen of this app - its open sourced here if you would like to repurpose it https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt.... I could try and find my code I make to generate the Anki deck if anyones interested as well.
Custom cards is something I agree is a nice to have. If you have preferences please share I'll try to add them to future feature updates.
wow, this looks nice. I will download it this week to give it a go. At a first glance this looks like notion for learning languages.
I have been using Babbel, and while it's nice to have mini lesson to take each day... they offer no option to write out notes, or to look at the grammar and get some context, no extra examples and flashcard system is just awful.
Okay I had a closer look now. Tbh I don't download anything that isn't a major brand product or open-source. I'm guessing the amount of work you put into this you're planning to monetize the app right? If so my first point of feedback would be to support either a web app or mobile app.
I really enjoy the concept behind the app focusing on subjects rather than structured lessons. I enjoy going on learning rabbit holes so this would fit me better than structured lessons.
Lastly a video or demo of the app would help as the UI is quite complex. It's not clear how I would go from importing a web page to using the cards for example.
Feel free to ping me if you have updates - happy to help support another indie dev!
Just dropped in my email to try out the Japanese. I'll let you know.
I'm not really sure what to do with this -- I thought you wanted someone to take a look at some Japanese content, but I can't find any in the app/tutorial.
thanks! right, there is no content. you build your library along the way, the feedback request is about autogenerated flashcards (basically you create and import content and then it autogenerates flashcards for you)
Anki is one of my favorite pieces of software ever so I was definitely willing to try yours. Seems like the feature that defines your app is auto-generation of a card / set of cards. Didn't see any way to create your own card, all you can do is put in an English word and get the automatically generated card added to your deck. So if that's not working well the entire thing crumbles.
Interesting idea that might have a future if it finds significant improvement. I think if it was ironed out I would still prefer it to spit out an anki compatible deck that I can use in Anki itself instead of in the ricotta web app.