Just wanted to share this simple trick. Using a software package called Keysticks, it's possible to assign key mapping to your controller and flip through flashcards in Anki using the controller instead of the keyboard / mouse. I use left trigger to answer wrong, right trigger to answer "good". Then I have the yellow/red buttons to repeat the audio.

http://imgur.com/lq0ulON

I am learning chinese, not japanese, and i've found this forum has quite a few Anki enthusiasts, with some really interesting developments such as this one: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid164105

Does anyone have gamification ideas around Anki ? I'd be interested in hearing about them.

edit: oops... you linked to it in your post

subs2srs isn't quite gamification but almost feels like it in a way... kind of like an RPG you don't understand but slowly the truth becomes known over time

I doubt you're asking about analog gamification, but I sometimes set rewards (e.g. get a cocktail, watch a movie, etc.) for particular achievements in Anki, especially if I have a backlog of 500+ cards (thankfully this only happens once or twice a year). I think a great system would be: study x cards, enjoy y minutes of Japanese media, with bigger rewards for reaching weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals.

I used to use the Logitech Gaming software to map Anki to my wireless PS2-style joystick for PC. It worked pretty well until my joystick crapped out. The gaming keyboards also work with it as well. If you have Logitech pretty much anything, you can assign keypads/programs to their controllers.

Anything to keep it interesting.

What i've done in the past is play Call of Duty, and everytime I die, I have to "eat" 20 flashcards. So i'm either playing a very good game of Call of Duty, or reviewing a lot of flashcards. This works for games which have a respawn.

I'm very curious about subs2srs. How do you pick the relevant scenes ? Do you quizz yourself with the audio or with the foreign subtitles first ? I'd like to improve my speaking proficiency first, reading second.

dustpuppy42 Wrote:I'm very curious about subs2srs. How do you pick the relevant scenes ? Do you quizz yourself with the audio or with the foreign subtitles first ? I'd like to improve my speaking proficiency first, reading second.

0) Watch movie
1) Make flashcards for the entire movie
2) I suspend (or delete) cards I don't like or find boring as I run into them
3) subs2srs decks are full of duplicates so grading them as you would, say core2000 doesn't really work
My card answers:
fail: I use just to 'reset' the timer for cards (see easy for more details)
hard: if the card is something I ALMOST know
medium: don't use anymore haha
easy: I use this for most cards. ESPECIALLY if I don't understand the card at all. When I see it a few months later and its closer to be understood I fail it so I get to see it more often
4) Once finish deck watch movie again. So much more is understood this time


I guess I should be clear. I use subs2srs to more or less understand what went on in the movie. Its not reasonable to expect 100% understanding as you would with a normal deck, so ordinary grading of the cards doesn't work very well
I used to think the same way as you, focusing on speaking before listening, but I found this was a bad idea. How can we know the subtleties of grammar/meaning if we haven't heard it used many times beforehand?