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Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-19
skylarth: the folder is hidden, and won't appear in finder. You either need to enable showing hidden files (if you can do that on the Mac?) or access the folder via a terminal (~/.anki)
droog: the format is just "kanji<space>information about kanji"
taijuando: the current conversion engine can't reliably guess. Old versions of Anki just wrote "じん" which was not correct. The new version shows all choices when it doesn't know the correct one. In the future, I'll move to a more reliable engine.
yufina: sorry, that's cheating :-) if you don't remember without a hint, you should mark it wrong
Anki? - droog - 2007-08-19
resolve Wrote:droog: the format is just "kanji<space>information about kanji"I guess the part that confuses me is the "information about kanji" part.
what would i put there to have the stroke count font show up under the answer?
Do i have to add every kanji in my deck to the kanji_info.txt file?
I guess i don't get it, any short examples anyone can post?
Thanks.
Anki? - JimmySeal - 2007-08-19
Yufina Wrote:How about button for "Show hiragana (or reading) first" and then meanig? I remember Hiragana version sometimes much better than kanji.You can create your own card type for this. In model properties, go to the Cards tab. Click Add to add a card type. Then click on it (Card 3) in the list. For Question format, enter
%(Reading)s
and for Answer format enter
%(Meaning)s
Unfortunately, this can't yet be used to generate cards for facts you've already made, only new ones.
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-19
droog: please ask your questions on the wiki and I'll the point the author of that plugin to them, so he can answer you better. (in short: the plugin does two things - give a one-word explanation of a kanji, and also provide stroke orders via a special font)
jimmyseal: however, that wouldn't be a very good idea, give the huge number of homonyms in Japanese.What Yufina wanted was an option to show the reading after showing a kanji, so he can have a hint before trying to answer the meaning. I don't think that would be a good idea :-)
Anki? - Nukemarine - 2007-08-20
Resolve, is it possible that using the hint means you got it wrong but not totally wrong? Anyway, if it is possible to create the equivalent of a hint window I think that would be good. So you can have 3 or 4 windows with the first being the question and the other being labeled as a "hint" or "hyperlink" or "kana pronounce" or "english translation" or "answer".
My interest, as you may be able to guess, is a window for the kanji sentence, a window for the audio and a window for a picture. Another person could have different reason for multiple answer windows. It's not essential now as you allow for hyperlinks, which I can use to link to local files.
And the Wiki Help is good, thanks for adding that.
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-20
Some flashcard programs use the concept of "multiple sides", which the user can step through. In the most simple case, this is just a "question" and an "answer", but it can also be things like "kanji" -> "reading" -> "meaning". In some programs this order is set when you create the deck, in others this order can be chosen each time you start a quiz.
I think this is a bad idea. It makes it impossible to reliably tell how well you remember something, because the ease of the answer depends on the format and order the question is being asked in. Anything which introduces change into the way a question is being displayed is subverting the algorithm (and ultimately doing yourself an injustice by scheduling away cards you didn't really know).
You talk about different windows, but I think that would be hard to manage. The answer format is customizable, so you can display the various elements (pronounciation, meaning, audio) separated by whitespace, in a table, etc.
Anki? - zazen666 - 2007-08-20
Hi Resolve,
How do we change where Anki saves our decks. (In linux, it saves in Home by defult, I would like to have a seperate folder.)
thanks
Anki? - zazen666 - 2007-08-20
Also, I updated the wiki for using Gnumeric if anyone is looking....
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-20
zazen: thanks for updating the wiki!
If you want the default directory to be elsewhere, start Anki with a different working directory (cd /mydir && anki). Do you really need to create that many decks, though?
Anki? - rich_f - 2007-08-20
Just a quick Mac update-- now I'm getting beachballs and CPU up to 99.2% (both CPUs) while reviewing as well. Entering new cards is getting frustrating, because there's a distinct lag in using they keyboard. It's ever-so-slight, but sometimes it increases to as many as 4-5 seconds where it just sits there. It seems to be tying up the CPU then, too.
The main reason I'm using the Mac version is for the ease of entering umlauts and sharp-s characters. (Really a pain in the butt on my windows laptop.)
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-20
Perhaps rosetta translation is slowing things down (you said it was a G4 or G5, right?). If you want to get Anki running faster on the Mac, the best thing you can do is do some debugging: try and run it from X11 in Darwin, try changing the Mac theme to Plastique, etc.
Anki? - JimmySeal - 2007-08-20
rich_f Wrote:The main reason I'm using the Mac version is for the ease of entering umlauts and sharp-s characters. (Really a pain in the butt on my windows laptop.)Umlauts and sharp-s? What version of Windows do you have?
Anki? - suffah - 2007-08-21
I've been running the mac version (on 10.4) the last couple of days and it seems perfectly fine. Uses around 40-50megs of ram and minimal cpu usage...
Anki? - rich_f - 2007-08-21
It's weird because I'm not running any special German keyboard or anything. The nice thing about OS X is that they make it easy to insert umlauts (the two little dots over a,o, and u in German) and sharp-s (those funny looking B-shaped things) with just an option+u or an option-s. Nice and fast. Meanwhile, in my version of Windows, it's ALT+02XX (can't remember the numbers that come after 2.)
But I'm not too familiar with the guts of Tiger, and since I run ProTools on it, I can't go messing with settings. (ProTools haaaaates that and will just crash out. -_-)
So what I think I'll do is run it all on my gaming PC-- I've got a logitech G15, and I can just program those characters into the G15 keyboard, so I'll avoid that issue. And Anki runs just fine on my PC-- I already am using it for JP anyway.
As for memory usage on the Mac, mine is also around 40-50M of actual, 300-500M of virtual. I'm thinking the bogdowns are somehow related to the autosave function or just saving in general, because whenever I save, it really slows down, and I have it set to autosave every 10 cards, because I made a mistake early on and lost a few. So that could be it.
Anki? - JimmySeal - 2007-08-21
rich_f - If you have Windows XP or anything recent from MS, all you need to do is select the US International Keyboard layout in Regional Settings. Do that and "a "o "u yield umlaut characters, and sharp-S is as simple as pressing Right Alt+S.
Anki? - LostInInaka - 2007-08-22
just found this great looking program today and got it installed on to my ubuntu...
now my only question is, where can I get some good card files? I'm looking for JLPT2/3 files and/or Genki English I files...looked through this thread, saw no link..only that some people email files to each other
Help via links or email is much appreciated!
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-22
Did you try the "sample decks" option from the Deck menu?
Anki? - LostInInaka - 2007-08-22
I did...but with the linux version I checked the .anki directory and the program directory and I don't see anything with the .anki or.fc extension
I tried downloading it again and still nothing
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-22
Did you install it with a Debian package, or did you use the source from repose.cx? I just downloaded the source from repose.cx to check, and the samples are found correctly.
Anki? - LostInInaka - 2007-08-22
i tried both...but found neither in both...let me dl the source again and see what i find
Anki? - LostInInaka - 2007-08-22
ok...just got the source again...and found them in there....strange I couldn't find them before...
thanks for the help!
and anyone with Genki I cards let me know
Anki? - decamer0n - 2007-08-22
i have perhaps an odd question about anki.
i run most of my applications from a usb flash drive because i travel around a lot and have to work on various host computers.
is anki portable on windows platforms? as in, could it be run from a usb drive without being installed to the register on each host pc?
thanks!
Anki? - resolve - 2007-08-22
Yes, run the program with the command line argument: "-c \myconfig" to use the directory "myconfig" on your flash drive.
Anki? - johnzep - 2007-08-22
not an odd question at all. I'm sure there are a lot of ALT's here with free time looking to study on school computers ^_^
I'd also like to know how to run anki portably from a flash drive if possible. And if we can, that would be a good addition to the wiki
Anki? - johnzep - 2007-08-22
resolve Wrote:Yes, run the program with the command line argument: "-c \myconfig" to use the directory "myconfig" on your flash drive.heh, your fast!