u/Thin-Beginning-8898

Anyone else having issues with Tavily MCP or is it just me? I’m using it for a couple weeks in my Claude setup and the results have been underwhelming. The search quality is fine for broad stuff but for technical or niche it returns garbage.
I also hit the rate limit very quickly on the free tier. I’m looking for something to swap it out with, ideally something that plugs into claude or cursor just as easily. (with a fast integration)
Doesn't need to be free but shouldn't cost an arm and a leg either, lmk guys

I’m using Anki since first year, I built decks for anything, but at some point the maintenance became the big job. So I stopped using it seriously about two months ago and I used a couple, here’s what I tried:

1. RemNote

Closer to Anki, you write your notes and the flashcards generate from them inline. Better than Anki for people who want to keep the SRS logic but hate the separate app workflow. I used it for a week, is probably the most natural Anki evolution.

2. TurboLean

This is the one that actually replaced Anki for me, I upload my lecture, PDF, or video, and it auto generates flashcards and quizzes directly from your material withou a manual card creation, and the card are pulled from your actual content, so they reflect what your professor actually emphasized. The whole thing is one tool, so notes, flashcards, quizzes, summaries all in the same place. With Anki I was always context-switching between my note app, my PDF reader, and the deck builder.

3. Quizlet

Still the most widely used flashcard platform by a mile with shared decks for basically every subject, test modes, match games. If you're in high school or early undergrad and your subject has popular shared decks already, this can be useful. I don't use it day to day because I need subject-specific cards from my own materials,but for standardized tests or common courses can be a good tool

4. Mochi

This is clean, minimal, with a better UI than Anki, (doesn't feel like a 2008 relic) Import from Anki works fine. I tested it for a few weeks but it didn't stick for me because I still had the manual card creation problem, just in a nicer interface.

5. Readwise Reader

This is not a flashcard app but worth mentioning. You highlight stuff while you read and it resurfaces them automatically over time, so you just read normally and the review happens in the background. Pretty useful

I stopped using Anki but is not a bad product, the reviews were fine, and also the flashcards, but turbo is having everything in one place. I upload my lecture and I already have the summary, the flashcards, the quizzes, all from the same material. With Anki I was always in three different apps just to study one thing. If anyone's still grinding decks manually or found something better I'd be curious to hear it.