I built a flashcard app after burning out on Anki...

I used Anki for a long time. It made sense back then. You had a word list, you needed to memorize it, you drilled it until it stuck. Simple. Effective enough. But it's 2026. And I think we need to have an honest conversation about why Anki is starting to feel like a fax machine in a world of instant messaging. The uncomfortable truth about flashcards I was memorizing words. Not learning them. There's a difference — and it took me embarrassingly long to see it. When you drill "ephemeral → short-l