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I think you underestimate the value that creating the cards individually provides. For me the first learning step is the way I create and structure the card, think about mnemonics, add a photo e.t.c.

Mochi is a great help there, since it provides a lot of small conveniences especially for language learning. The ability to automatically add a translation and spoken pronunciations is super nice and built in a way that it seamlessly integrates into the keyboard-centric markdown flow of the app.

IIRC Mochi is written in ClojureScript and it shows, it's a really simple, yet composable and powerful tool.

The author also keeps polishing it continuously, which I found to really streamline everything.

It's my absolutely most favourite tool for learning languages, because it does its job beautifully, efficiently, and doesn't get in my way, and that's a property that's hard to come by in software these days.



I totally agree, even though I'm not using that, Mochi is really well thought-out and maintained app. I'm testing it from time to time and it's always better, I'm pretty sure some day I'll switch to them. They allow for hierarchical structure of your notes/cards and also you can easily link between them with [[wikilinks]] (with auto backlinks).




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