Comments on: Farewell, SuperMemo; Hello, Anki.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Hi Johanna,

I’m not sure if it’s what you’re after, but there’s a Spanish deck on the Anki Wiki Extra Decks page. Description:

1000 ish Spanish Verbs, Vocab, Phrases, questions, etc. No particular order. Will update when I hit 2500 cards/facts

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:46:26 +0000

Hi from Germany!
I’ve been using Anki for learning Japanese Kanji. Now I am looking for a Spanish deck for Anki. Does anybody know where I can get one from? Or do you know anyone who has started one? I don’t really want to start off scratch… Thanks for helping =)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:48 +0000

Indeed, thanks for linking to that Joe. I’d seen that before, but when I went to link to it to answer Ek01’s question, the Wiki was down.

So: thanks again!

By: Ek01

Ek01 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:52:22 +0000

Thanks Joe, that definitely answered my inquiries.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:49:42 +0000

Ek01, check out this explanation of the algorithm from the Anki FAQ

http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-400e02a93844d826a8e09e3aca983f82854026bd

Hope it helps.

Joe

By: Ek01

Ek01 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:31:53 +0000

I use Supermemo 2006. I have yet to fully understand all of its features and I’m pondering if I ever will put in the effort.

I know Anki uses the SM2 algorithm or something along those lines but is it as up to date with the SM2006 one? If so I may switch to Anki because I’m finding a few bugs here and there that are rather annoying. I always remain in fear I’m going to mess up my collection because I don’t fully understand all the options within options.

So, is there a difference in the algorithms?

-Cheers.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:44:24 +0000

@Joe: Glad you figured it out!

@moo: But I like Anki! Yeah, I tried out incremental reading - too complicated for me. Which is really a one line explanation as to what I hated about SuperMemo: everything was overcomplicated. I shouldn’t need to read a page-long tutorial to figure out how to change a font.

To each their own, though. If it works for you, I’m sincerely glad for ya’ (seriously).

By: moo

moo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:59:19 +0000

The good thing about SuperMemo is that it’s a complete knowledge manager - you don’t just add the Q/A-pairs, but everything you want to know and can proceed it later (scheduled). Did you check out incremental reading?

If you like an easy flashcard software, try FullRecall (fullrecall.com).

With SuperMemo, you can export selected items or the ones that are due today to a PPC version of it. FullRecall even saves your whole knowledge database as an XML file which you can transfer to your PPC and proceed with learning on the PPC version …

I think I’ve tried every flashcard software on the market over the last six years - I’m always coming back to SuperMemo because I miss some features in the new software. If you use it in a simple mode, SM looks like this: http://supermemo.com/images/abc.jpg - but you can do so much more with it: http://www.supermemo.com/images/tree.jpg

Hm, I should get paid for this …

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:43:24 +0000

Update: The Serbian was to blame! Now that I’ve assigned Windows to Chinese I can paste in words with 3rd tones. The font looks a little funky but it’s fine.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:43:33 +0000

Joe: Glad you’re enjoying using Anki. Sorry the plugin didn’t do quite what you were after! If you stop by the Anki forums and post a message about it, I’d say Richard (the maker of the plugin) would perhaps be willing to add in what you’re after. I know he’s done that a few times when people had requests.