OK I know this is a personal thing. Or maybe its not? Is there a best SRS?
When I first decided on an SRS (4years+ ago) I tried a few and ended using supermemo. I am quite against the idea of changing. Not least as I have tried anki and found all this %production% etc confusing. Plus I have 7000+ items in SM. I downloaded the Anki deck JLPT level 4 and it seems to test me on the kanji and kana asking for the question. I presume I am ment to change a setting?
But I find I learn things best by putting the work in the first month. That means reviews several times a day for the first few days and then decreasing frequency. I have some vocab I have never used but remember years later using this system. ATM I have to use paper cards to do this. But they are a pain to handle and sort out. Its hard to test as you test by box and then some things get tested more than they should. Then you put them into the SRS and the scores are weird because of testing by card first. I have tried to let the SRS (SM) work from day one and it does not work how I work best.
Anki seems to let you test several times a day if you want (using hard as the mark or review early?) Am I wrong here? Would Anki help with this problem? Or am just looking at fiddling with a nice shiney bit of software as an excuse to avoid getting going on Heisig like I should be doing?
Any advice?
Thanks!
p.s I really think there should be a sticky topic of the pros and cons of each of the SRS bits of software there is a lot out there and when you start new its hard to know what features you need.
When I first decided on an SRS (4years+ ago) I tried a few and ended using supermemo. I am quite against the idea of changing. Not least as I have tried anki and found all this %production% etc confusing. Plus I have 7000+ items in SM. I downloaded the Anki deck JLPT level 4 and it seems to test me on the kanji and kana asking for the question. I presume I am ment to change a setting?
But I find I learn things best by putting the work in the first month. That means reviews several times a day for the first few days and then decreasing frequency. I have some vocab I have never used but remember years later using this system. ATM I have to use paper cards to do this. But they are a pain to handle and sort out. Its hard to test as you test by box and then some things get tested more than they should. Then you put them into the SRS and the scores are weird because of testing by card first. I have tried to let the SRS (SM) work from day one and it does not work how I work best.
Anki seems to let you test several times a day if you want (using hard as the mark or review early?) Am I wrong here? Would Anki help with this problem? Or am just looking at fiddling with a nice shiney bit of software as an excuse to avoid getting going on Heisig like I should be doing?
Any advice?
Thanks!
p.s I really think there should be a sticky topic of the pros and cons of each of the SRS bits of software there is a lot out there and when you start new its hard to know what features you need.