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Yes, but I hadn't heard of any scheduling features. I just used the app on my laptop. The main point of these programs are the scheduling algorithm. Although
by kiba 6y ago
Yes, but I hadn't heard of any scheduling features. I just used the app on my laptop.
The main point of these programs are the scheduling algorithm.
Although Anki is pretty useful, I found it's UX arcane and complex. Would prefer something simpler but if it means less work for me it could be good to stick with.
Complex? You mean difficult? It's very easy to use basic features to add very basic cards.
Anki is endlessly customizable if you delve deeper.
- jan_Inkepa 6y agoWhen I was making my own deck for German, I had a pretty fancy pipeline for exporting things from a giant spreadsheet into anki [for me entering keywords in the app was super tricky - also because I want to double-check everything in a dictionary (and add information that may not be available on the fly, like gender/plural form/declensions) - the in-app note-adder/browser is IMO just not good enough for that kind of data manipulation/browsing. Assembling and maintaining the list of words was as much work as the revision (but also in its own way revision). It was amazing, but eventually the work-load got too much and I burned out (I had several lapses where I did complicated deck-manipulation to get things back under control) - though after probably more than a year of daily use I can still say it was very worth it. Now I’m using someone else’s deck for Latin (that goes with a book), and to say “I just want to revise the material from Chapter X” using tags/keywords/whatever is kinda futsy (you have to create a new temporary deck that has a keyword filter). But if you’re using software every day you can get used to kinks. It’s pretty amazing software.