Launching today
MemoCrow
Japanese vocabulary that sticks, powered by FSRS
7 followers
Japanese vocabulary that sticks, powered by FSRS
7 followers
Not another Japanese course. MemoCrow does one thing well: vocabulary. Capture any word you meet in one tap from a 200,000-entry dictionary or with the OCR scanner, then let FSRS, the most advanced spaced repetition algorithm, make sure it sticks for good.
Love how focused this is on vocab and the FSRS integration sounds great. One idea though: it would be really helpful to have example sentences or short audio pronunciations pulled in automatically with each new word, so I can hear and see how it's actually used instead of just memorizing the meaning in isolation.
@mozerdogan92885 You're reading my mind! Audio is already in: every word gets pronunciation automatically with the correct pitch accent, which most tools skip and is a big deal for sounding natural.
And example sentences are literally what I'm building right now ! words shown and practiced in real sentences instead of memorized in isolation, for exactly the reason you describe. It's my top priority post-launch, so this kind of feedback is perfectly timed. Thanks!
the one-tap capture from the OCR scanner is a really smart touch, feels like they actually thought about the friction of pulling words out of anything you're reading instead of making you retype them.
@taner140399 Thank you, that means a lot ! friction is exactly the hill I chose to die on 😄 The whole app started from the observation that I'd stop adding words the moment it took more than a few seconds. Retyping kanji you can't read yet is the worst chicken-and-egg problem in Japanese learning, so the scanner had to be a first-class feature, not an afterthought.
Out of curiosity: what do you mostly read in Japanese? Manga, novels, subtitles? It helps me prioritize what the OCR should handle best next.