Several features

[kotpa]

Hello,

I have been using ANKI for quite a long time and I am dissatisfied with it. Mostly because of this reasons:

* not very innovative and nice design, browsing card is a bit confusing, website is horrible
* sharing decks is problematic - it's not real sync, for example when you want to collaborate with others on one deck. It's more like upload/download storage
* it is not possible to easily change different algorithms for studying
* setting up some rule from which to generate cards, endlessly. E.g. you wan't to learn how to multiply numbers, you don't create a many of cards with product of numbers from 0 to 50, but create one card with rule (with e.g. Python's subset of language): FRONT="What is the result of {{x}} times {{y}}?', BACK='The answer is: {{x*y}}', ARGS={'x': range(30),'y': range(30)}".

I was thinking about starting new SRS from scratch, but found out Mnemosyne project, which basically seems quite what I am looking for.

Anyway, I am a bit disappointed by several facts:

* Website is also a bit cumbersome to navigate. For example the plugin page: http://mnemosyne-proj.org/scripts-and-plugins . Is that layout serious, or just bug on my side? You need about 20 divs just for two-layer content (header with name + description). The only formatting used there is link highlighting - I can't distinguish what is description and what is plugin name etc... Same with card sets... Some kind of list with short description + accordion with long description would be much better.
* From developer point of view, couldn't we use github/bitbucket/gitlab instead of launchpad? I am sure it would help a bit with getting more people involved as well as with transparency.
* import from ANKI is missing - I would be willing to work on this.

Some of those are questions, some of those are basically feature requests.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

> * sharing decks is problematic - it's not real sync, for example when you want to
> collaborate with others on one deck. It's more like upload/download storage

Mnemosyne is similar in that respect, though.

> * setting up some rule from which to generate cards, endlessly. E.g. you wan't to
> learn how to multiply numbers, you don't create a many of cards with product of
> numbers from 0 to 50, but create one card with rule (with e.g. Python's subset of
> language): FRONT="What is the result of {{x}} times {{y}}?', BACK='The answer is:
> {{x*y}}', ARGS={'x': range(30),'y': range(30)}".

Although the framework allows you to implement this, I'm not aware of anybody having actually done this, though.

> * Website is also a bit cumbersome to navigate. For example the plugin page:
> http://mnemosyne-proj.org/scripts-and-plugins . Is that layout serious, or just
> bug on my side? You need about 20 divs just for two-layer content (header with
> name + description). The only formatting used there is link highlighting - I can't
> distinguish what is description and what is plugin name etc... Same with card
> sets... Some kind of list with short description + accordion with long description
> would be much better.

I've put our webmaster Patrick in CC, so that he can decide if he has enough time to work on this.

> * From developer point of view, couldn't we use github/bitbucket/gitlab instead of
> launchpad? I am sure it would help a bit with getting more people involved as well
> as with transparency.

If you look at the devel list, you'll see that this is actually something being considered at this very moment.

> * import from ANKI is missing - I would be willing to work on this.

That would be nice, thanks!

Cheers,

Peter