[kirill5pol]

I definitely agree that to absolutely maximize learning you should write the cards yourself but I think it really depends on the value of the content, say it may be 2x as effective for learning but take 5x the amount of effort.

For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolingo (+ friends/time in germany) because using Duolingo was pretty low effort, even if it wasn't the fastest most effective way of learning.

I think this is probably true for most things you may want to learn about outside of your job, school, or really strong reasoning behind it. Perfect is the enemy of good as they say

(Shameless plug: I made a tool that makes spaced repetition questions for educational YouTube videos/podcasts that you watch, usually I was forgetting everything and wasn't really that invested to spend the time making decks for everything I watch, so I landed on this! https://www.platoedu.org)

[rikafurude21]

Is duolingo actually good for learning languages? i tested it briefly and it seemed more like a minigame of constructing sentences

[theshrike79]

600 days of German on Duolingo and I can kinda read it and guess the words I don’t know yet.

I can speak phrases and maybe understand a bit of spoken German depending on the speaker

[lamtung]

Wow, your tool is amazing. I have been searching for something like this for quite some time and even thought of writing such tool myself.