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Fancy Flashcard - Lightweight free/libre and open-source PWA to help you learning on all your devices
https://fancy-flashcard.github.io/ffc/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Connect Deck to Google Sheets or similar #40

Open vasu1124 opened 3 years ago

vasu1124 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

(got a link to your app via @michael-spengler) I was looking for a quick flashcard learning app for my son for his Latin excercises. There are of course a number of paid vocabulary exercise apps available that even include the exact books/chapters used in school. But as the teachers often deviate from the course book and handout other learning map leaflets, a versatile flashcard app like yours is better.

The problem then shifts towards the ability to easily create, import, and manipulat the questionaire content. If you are lucky, you get the leaflets in word or pdf, otherwise in a papercopy. Most often you have to assemble the content with copy&paste or typing it in yourself. And in these 80% cases the easiest I think would be to connect the app to popular tools like google sheets, not only for reading the card data (but also storing the performance meta data, naybe in an adjacent worksheet). By reusing such popular tools, crowd sourcing the decks becomes easier as well, think about pupils who could then together collaborate (without the knowledge of csv, json, git etc.).

Btw. after a very quick search into the topic, I currently settled for https://github.com/tianshanghong/awesome-anki . https://flippity.net/ seems to run on Google Sheets (and has numerous other ideas as well), but seems disfunctinal at this time.

nikolockenvitz commented 3 years ago

Hi @vasu1124, that's a pretty good idea. Thanks for sharing. And yes, Anki is probably the most mature open-source flashcard learning app. Fancy Flashcard fulfills certain requirements we had a year ago when starting working on it, but for most people Anki might be more suitable as of now.

michael-spengler commented 3 years ago

@vasu1124 two updates might be interesting for you:

  1. we started collecting and publishing decks under the creative commons license - e.g. here: https://github.com/fancy-flashcard/wirtschaftsinformatik

  2. There is a version in place now which supports the "in-app card creation": https://github.com/fancy-flashcard/ffc-extended

We would be happy to join forces with some other flashcard learning apps - if you want to trigger and steer some collaborations, let us know.

michael-spengler commented 3 years ago

related: https://www.educationalappstore.com/best-apps/6-best-flashcard-apps