From the email:

Understood, so there could be
(on creation of the flashcard) a little microphone icon that would let you record something, and
(on review of the flashcard) some audio icon that would let you listen to that recording.

Interesting idea, but how useful can it be? Maybe the api call to google dictionary may be more handy (in particular for language learners).

Similar to the one that is available for Anki
https://github.com/glutanimate/review-heatmap

In the footer section, clicking "Blog", "Contact" or "Github" should make the page to be opened in a new tab.

On /courses page, there should be a link to 'Home' on top of the CourseCategories navigation:

On that page, we will have:

• 4 manually selected best courses of the week (for this we will need to create the course.if_course_of_the_week field in the database).
• 4 most recently created courses

Per-user profile pages, where users can:

• update their emails/avatars
• courses user is an author of are listed
• courses user is learning
• activity log (see #19)
• ability to follow the user

Types of memory tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_test#List_of_human_tests (see the Memory section).
A quick google search for 'official memory test' doesn't give good results.
This link https://bebrainfit.com/online-memory-tests mentions official tests that can only be downloaded via .pdf!
What if we translate these .pdf tests into modern online form?

This:

• would be easily googlable
• could be posted on reddit
• is exciting to develop :-)

After I added index.js?cacheBust-2 to our index.js - our service worker doesn't cache either of these files.

Anki lets you add tags to cards when you create them and then you can study just portions of a "course" by only reviewing cards in a certain course that have a particular tags or set of tags.

The benefit of using personal tags in addition to courses to organize cards, is that tags can be quickly added and removed, they are temporary and a card can have multiple tags, letting it belong to multiple subsets of "learning groups".

Having tags would allow you to quickly focus on learning just certain cards in a course, without having to permentally move those cards to a whole new course.

Can you provide a short cut for creating a duplicate of an existing flashcard?

Will you be supporting Markdown?

I am exploring the use of cards in a classroom setting after reading https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ww2dxwWpSfkQB4NZb/a-year-of-spaced-repetition-software-in-the-classroom.

Would be nice to have a "light" theme for this.

Atm https://www.memcode.com/courses/2166/review/simulated page doesn't have the sound switch-off button. That can be fairly off-putting to newcomers.
Let's make it possible to disable sound when the try out memcode.

Normal review:

Test run:

When the Test Drive button is clicked, it launches a review alright.
But if you click Test Drive button immediately thereafter, there is no response.

Users sign up via github/google, and something the url to their avatars changes, which means we get this look:

• As soon as user signs up - let's upload their avatar to our AWS S3, and store that link instead.
  We already have amazon credentials for AWS S3 storage, let's use those.
• We should also create a script that refetches stale user images from their Google and Github accounts.

If the user is one any page, e.g. this page:

And they click the sign-in button, - they should return back to the /courses/5 page after the sign in is done.

We struggle from this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35373995/github-user-email-is-null-despite-useremail-scope

Use the solution described in the first answer to fetch the email if we don't get it from the call to /user :-)

https://www.memcode.com/users/520

Migrating the backend endpoints of this form: https://github.com/lakesare/memcode/blob/master/backend/api/CourseApi/index.js#L10
into endpoints of this form: https://github.com/lakesare/memcode/blob/master/backend/api/CourseApi/rate.js
is always a #todo.

It's fine to PR just a few endpoints migrated.

If migrating to knex is too hard (e.g. SQL query is more easily written in raw SQL), - it’s fine to leave pg-promise.

Related to #4. I'm not seeing the source license. I would like to share and modify, but don't see permission to do so. Thank you so much for an awesome project!

React-select enables easier keyboard navigation, and it's already imported.
Let's use react-select for our course search functionality :-)

I have an idea for the flashcards. It would be cool if you can have alternate flashcards for one card or question. How I'm going about this as of now is writing out a separate flashcard for the same sentence but different the fill in the blank answer. Also alternate answers would be a good addition.

[From gmail]

Right now, when we move the flashcard to another course, - all of our progress with that flashcard disappears. Make sure it stays.

Thank you for making this project. I haven't used it much, but the little I've used, it's worked very well.

I think it would be a nice feature to be able to import/export flashcards/courses. That would make it easier to upload courses from memrise or anki decks.

It seems to be in order of creation of flashcards.
It must be in the order as listed in the course.

The attached file is the CSV generated for course https://www.memcode.com/courses/2288.

Memcode - CS_8151 - Unit 2 - Data, Expressions and Statements.xlsx

to avoid pg-promise api misuse, read these:

• https://coderwall.com/p/irklcq/pg-promise-and-case-sensitivity-in-column-names
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39168501/pg-promise-returns-integers-as-strings

Rating is now available on a course as a whole.
Rating on each flashcard can provide feedback on how well it was "understood" by the user.
This can be done during "learning" mode or "review" mode.

This could potentially be distracting during a review session. Enabling the rating can be disabled or enabled at the beginning of a review session.

https://www.memcode.com/courses/1410

Formulas look ugly right now. Is it possible to use a better font for formulas in Quill's Katex extension?

If flashcards have images, the export to Excel creates a file successfully.
But the excel file has errors, and fails in Google Sheets when I try to open it.

This appears now at the bottom of all the existing cards.
So to add a new card, the user has to scroll all the way to the end of all cards.

Several times I have wished that this addition dialog could be available at the very top.

Evgenia,

One of our student developers(Mr. Deepak Chakravarthy) has come up with an idea of introducing chatbots in the site. This chatbot can be helpful to communicate with the users of the platform, report issues etc., We would like to know the feasibility/use case of the feature from your point. We can have a brainstorming session, if needed.

Ref Chatbot Link: https://www.tawk.to/ - We can use this framework to develop the chatbot. Deepak has some expertise on this.

Google: 'node, how to send emails', and research this topic.
Choose the library to implement this with.
Implement it :-)

Right now we do not send emails at all, - users don't get the email when they sign up, users don't get the email when someone joins their course, users don't get reminders for when to repeat their flashcards. All of this could be highly beneficial to users (one user wrote me she literally forgot the url and couldn't find memcode again!).

Press ENTER a couple of time on https://www.memcode.com/courses/2166/review/simulated.
You could notice, that when you review the last flashcard, there is no animation from 1/2 to 2/2 flashcards in the progress bar.
Imagine how much more satisfying it would be if we had that animation!

Is this possible?

And on a related note, how about remixing an existing course by adding my own flashcards to it?

Hi! Thanks a lot for this project. It's lightweight, but very well-rounded.

I was wondering under which license you want to release this code; a LICENSE file is missing. I want to self-host this for a (non-public) limited amount of users and courses, but I need to modify some things to allow single signon. Anywhere from BSD, MIT to (A)GPL would be fine for that.

Thanks again!

From the email:

Hi, I wanted to let you know about an error I caught, I still haven't had time to do a dev environment yet and may look into it myself, but I often study Korean, and when I try to input characters, they get separated and don't form the character (see screenshot, for example those three characters should form one unit, and not be spaced out separately. I don't know what is causing it but it really slows down input of info into the boxes. It may be the same for other languages and characters too.

Is there a similar issue with the indian alphabet?
The way to tackle this issue is basically to google something along the lines of 'Quill' + 'korean', and then see if any solutions work for us. Bonus points if you find how to test the solution.

As a first level, it would be great to just flip a card.
And then start editing it immediately.

Tip #7 from
https://collegeinfogeek.com/flash-card-study-tips/

The TIMEZONE setting changed recently on memcode.
Everything that's timezone('UTC', now()) in schema should be just now() now.

Please create the migration backend/db/migrations/12.sql that will change all these fields in db too.

At 150%,

At 175%,

Even though k30rahul (joined on Mar 12 2020) and Sreekee (join on Mar 27 2020) are registered on the memcode, I am not able to add them as co-authors.

I found this on the TRELLO board. This would be great to have.

Right now, I am able to select one card and move that one alone.
It would be nice to move multiple cards at the same time.

Can a course have multiple authors, allowing for collaboration.
I am encouraging students to collaborate and produce flashcards as a team of 4-10.

Right now there are many great courses, but it's quite hard to find them.
It should be possible to press ENTER in the search bar in the header, - and that should redirect us to the /search page.

There you should be able to see all the courses found real-time as you type in the bigger-size search bar (bonus points for joining your efforts with the designer!).

Right now we are only searching in the course title and description. On this page, - let's search in flashcards content too.

I considered the use of some existing blog engines, but I'm inclined to create it ourselves - this way it will be properly integrated into Memcode's designs, and we'd be able to use any js/css we'd like for every blog post.

I suggest we add the blog post table:
slug: 'comparison-between-SR-sites',
authorId: userId, (this will let us use the useraname, avatar, etc. of the existing Memcode user),

When user goes to memcode.com/blog/comparison-between-SR-sites url, - React router routes them to the memcode.com/blog/:slug page, which is located in the /frontend/pages/blog_slug folder. There, manually, based on the slug, - we will render a particular article, that we write in vanilla html.

Related emails: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/WhctKJVzZKtTnLzKHjnkStclGtsMbQsTCGSfNqblfkWGvzZrZMwwbTscGwLZSMfxXxNFNDL.

1. Notifications should be renewed without setting { status: 'request' } on subsequent api calls.

2. There shouldn't be a residual '1 notification is unread' when we:

• have one notification
• mark it as read
• switch to another page, and see one notification as unread for a few seconds.

This happens because we don't update value in our localStorage whenever amount of unread notifications changes.

The profile page needs to be more engaging.

Some suggestions:

• Courses of other people this user is learning
• Courses this user gave the rating to (and what rating)
• What users he's associated with (friends/followers)
• His stats: learned this many flashcards, this many users are learning his courses, created this many courses.
• Notifications of this user (same as in the notification dropdown)

https://www.memcode.com/articles/welcome is our landing page.

There needs to be a section with our features. Example of the features are:

• one of the only sites with the gifs allowed!
• accessible, navigate by shortcuts and tabs
• beautiful
• fast course creation
• formatting for free, for all, - formulas, code highlighting
• good for studying at nighttime (look at our colors!)
• SM2 algorithm
• open source

This section should be interesting to read, - consider adding some icons.

Right now it stays open.