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Love the idea...having some trouble installing and have some skepticism about usability (because I have iBooks, Kindle etc. and the cross-platform thing kills me) but think it's really promising

Was a fun 9 minutes :^) Having to scroll up and down again when switching tabs was slightly annoying but might be designed on purpose

I really love this idea but I'm having such a hard time using it. After hatching the egg with Ctrl + Shift + P, I have no idea how to "type" on that blank panel (I use Cursor). When I open new files, the egg disappears. Frustrating.

Ah sorry to hear it’s frustrating - You could switch to the Explorer mode in settings which might be a better option.

In panel mode: The panel is treated like another open file tab, so needs to be manually positioned alongside your open code (so that both are visible simultaneously).


What's different about this vs codepen? I want to try the special features


I am not sure about all the features codepen has. But here are some features you can try in scriptpad:

- Installable as app (PWA) on all devices. Works offline.

- You can download your snippets as zip.

- Editor supports emmet, for fluent devEx.

- Configurable editor, you can find all configs by clicking the gear icon on top right (or using CMD/Ctrl + K).

Sidenote: If you are seeing cached version for some reason, please ensure to hard refresh the page using "ctrl+shift+r".


What's the camera for :D


Flapping wings


Did you shut down the website? It's not accessible now.


I thought it was intentional and super funny to say "I made a fool", it didn't hinder clarity at all, brilliant, trying it now.


Is there an efficient mobile version for this?


Not available at the moment, but the app is ready, just the hassle of uploading it to the store. But it's on the way :)


The sentence --> into flashcard is exactly what I was hoping for. If this is high quality I'd happily pay $60/year (something comparable to what I pay AnkiApp pro / Univerbal subscription).Here's some feedback so you can consider if you want to invest.

I tried the app but on the first few attempts it gave an error 404 in console.

The example long paragraph I put in from an email gave me only 4 flashcards, two of them was on Arigatou, when I wanted to focus on the other words: ショップからの回答: [Re] 947912984 につきまして ご連絡ありがとうございます。 ご返送のお手配、誠にありがとうございます。 ご返送品が到着いたしましたら、再度ご連絡致します。 この度は、お手数、ご迷惑をお掛け致しまして誠に申し訳ございません。 恐れ入りますが、よろしくお願いいたします。

Also I couldn't figure out the UI initially, it took me like 10 seconds to think to try the "chat" feature to input into the LLM.


Let me reclarify - I really want this app. I tried RemNote (as they say it's easy to convert notes to flashcards) but it doesn't support hand-drawing on othe iPad, and is just really unintuitive to me still. The flashcards I couldn't figure out back-->front as it's always front-->back.

LLM question --> flashcards is exactly the workflow I want. I ask ChatGPT to do a lot of breakdowns of the grammar and the furigana and the words, being able to consolidate that with spaced reptition flash cards just makes a ton of sense. I don't know how hard it is to make this product really high quality, but happy to pre-pay you $10 for example no strings attached (I'm moved to Japan since 6 months ago)


Thanks, your feedback is worth way more than $10! I have been typing in one line or a couple sentences at a time. Your use case of inputting a whole email sounds very useful though.

I'm wondering if that would require a different UI or if... Say it just broke up the email for you into separate sentences and input them separately. Then you could click through the sentences one at a time in the existing chat carousel, would that work?

Reversing the flashcards wouldn't be much work, but I've heard that's less useful for learning, since for the English text there's be many ways to say it in Japanese. Happy to add features people will use though.


Added reverse cards (only applies to new cards, no backfilling). There's a toggle now in the user settings page (inside the top bar user icon) to enable it. It shows the first sentence of the english text as the front of the card.


My quick fix is to set an input length limit on the chat text. Testing out your input, it seems like around 70 is the limit for getting decent output from the LLM.


OK. I don't mind shorter inputs. Also I hope to have one place for my flashcards i.e. make flash cards directly without LLM too. I hope to write kanjis on my iPad to make flashcards - I can't seem to figure out how to create new cards directly?

Email is just an odd case today since I was refunding an item. I usually want to focus on phrases everywhere, my yoga/pilates class, baseball team, sometimes TV, sometimes what I hear on a podcast, sometimes on a magazine, and get a detailed breakdown. It's not usually in formal, nor long.

I personally like both flash card directions because it allows me to practice how to write kanji for example instead of just recognizing, or in the context of phrases, it helps me practice active recalling rather than just passive recognition.


And thank you very much for making this app, I'm excited to see how it progresses and help you get more users and customers.

I tried so many apps, and was debating whether to build it myself. But it's impossible for me to build - no time and no creative juice left from my main job.


Was the home page confusing or the main app confusing? Sorry that it wasn't intuitive enough.


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