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Started with Anki; New to RevtK

#1
I just finished the first lesson in Remembering the Kanji, bringing me to frame 276, and I've been working at the book for about a week. My system thus far has been pretty much just use Anki. Most days I've done about 20 characters a day, and if I find an extra hour or so I'll cram in another 20.

So here lies my question. I've made good progress and I have a good history with Anki so far, meaning it already knows which characters I've stumbled on and how to space them out for SRS purposes. Is it worthwhile to review all 276 here in an attempt to get SRS going here instead or should I just stick with Anki? What are the benefits to using the site to review, versus Anki?

Thanks,
Mike
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#2
Stick with one SRS. Either use the site, or use Anki. The idea is to do the least amount of work to keep stuff remembered, not to double the amount of work you're doing.
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#3
Sure why not use whats given to you when everything is all in one place?
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#4
I figured the best was probably to keep going with what I had. I was just curious if RevtK had features and such that made it worth switching.

Thanks for the input.
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#5
I started off with anki but later dropped it as this site has way more options for reviewing/adding cards. Having everything in one place is just icing on the cake. The only downside is no offline mode.
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#6
I'm pretty new to it but I find I like the site better than anki. It's easier to set the cards up, it's got the stories all ready and waiting, plus you can export everything and use your stories on the official rtk app.
Plus, I find the graph of all my reviews and how far I've come quite encouraging.

I'll probably eventually go back to anki, but that won't be till I finish RTK, and then it will be about adding readings and meanings etc to what I already know.
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#7
Only thing I dont like here is the percentage of right/wrong it shows after a review. It can be quite motivation breaking to see a less than 50% right percentage (at least for me).

With anki I set a limit of wrong cards and when I reach the limit it shows one of the wrong ones soon, this makes the feeling of making mistakes less explicit.

And I dont have a Iphone/Ipad/Ipod just a "normal" nokia smartphone which doesnt work on this site, only on ankiweb, without this I would lose all my progress. I wanted to buy a Iphone but you really dont want to know how much one costs here in Brazil Tongue
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#8
I believe the main benefits of this site are that everything you need to study RTK is ready to use, there are the shared stories that help a lot, and maybe the way the cards are handled can please people more than Anki's — or not. Anki's benefits are the fact that you can put anything you want in the cards (including images and extra fields), use it offline, and later use it to study more than just RTK (sentences, vocabulary, etc.).
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#9
Thanks for your thoughts. The idea of switching does seem tempting, but I think I'm going to stick with Anki for now. It would be one thing if it didn't already know my history so well. I don't cherish the thought of having to review just under 300 kanji in a day, and then have them all show up every few days ready for review, and then having to convince RevTK that I really don't need to see 一 again tomorrow.
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