This is how I use the various eases:

It's interesting how everyone grades.  I tend to stick mostly with got it, 4, and screwed up, 1.

As for lists, I have mine on my phone now(RTK1 txt file and a full data Joyo Kanji excel file), it uses a document viewer.  I don't consider it part of my studies these days, but if I find myself with absolutely nothing to do in town, I'll browse through it. Before I got my tiny pc, I also carried a printout of the entire list and in free time would write the kanji by the clues, more like doodling than studying.

So, today I had 5 out of 6 classes free and got the idea to make a deck out of the 22,000 word frequency list I found at the Monash site. Of Course, it wouldn't be tab delimited, so I wound up with way too many fields.  I was using my little 7" screen so, on import anki stopped showing me fields at 21.  Apparently, I think, I neglected to add fields 12 and 13, so I only got one vocab field and 19 fields for the meaning/grammar/part of speech. I thought anki might implode or something cause it took 20-30 minutes to import. But she made it through to the end!  So, the word, in Japanese, is on the front, with everything else on the back, minus the handful of fields I didn't bother with.

I learned today that Anki can import at least 20 fields and at least a deck of 22, 637 words.  I figured after Heisig and my Kanji in Context reviews, I could run through it for kicks.

It's so nice that Anki keeps us all so motivated. Thanks resolve!

I would like to see that word frequency list, can I get a link?

Would just like to say that you're amazing resolve. It may be just a hobby for you, but I consider Anki a professional development. Your passion adds more to the program than a paid team could. Thanks!

Interesting handle, zazen666.

I uploaded the deck to the anki wiki. It's under the extra decks and in the attachments area. Didn't know how to put it in the box. Hope it works.
Cheers.

Girardi-Kelly_Word_Frequency.zip
Girardi-Kelly%20Word%20Frequency.anki

Thanks xaarq! What a helpful community.

This is just an idea. You could turn the font color to white for information you want to get "hidden" (it can be useful for cloze deletion too). This way, that info will be there, it will just not be visible. If you want to see it, just select the text with your mouse and it will appear as if by magic.

Last edited by Transtic (2008 January 16, 8:48 pm)

Yay, I finally caught up with my anki reviews.

Over the winter break, I was traveling, so I didn't really study at all.  When I finally got back and ready to study, I had a gazillion expired cards (or more precisely around 1000) 

Now that I'm caught up, I  like the "Final" mode a lot.  It gives a nice stopping point...5 hours with no expired cards!!! ^_^

What is this "final drill" anyway? I can't seem to find info on it.

johnzep wrote:

So it shows those cards a little early so you can get to a stopping point.

Maybe I'm not understanding fully but I don't think you will get to a stopping point. If you've got cards scheduled a few seconds after the 5 hour interval, then after you finish your final drill, you'll have to final drill them too since they will fall inside the 5 hour interval once you've finished. This could keep going.

Like I said, maybe I'm not getting this but what's the difference between this final drill feature and shifting the present time forwards by 5 hours?

If you think that 10 minutes is too long to wait until seeing a card you made a mistake on, why not adjust this instead of enabling this final drill feature?

My view is that either you believe your scheduling algorithm or you don't. If you do believe that it works, why would you want to see cards before their scheduled time?

I like the final drill because it allows me to have one large review session where I know cards won't be expiring for awhile.  This way I can just review once a day, add my new cards during the 5 hour gap before more cards expire, then do a big review again tomorrow.

Speaking about the new Final Review feature, one thing I have noticed after having used anki for a while(before and now and after the new Final Review feature) is that I feel there isn't a daily finish line to my reviews, which I felt like I had with RevTK. 

Now, I know logically what is going on with the SRS, and that I should be able to just close Anki whenever I fell like that day and be "done".

However, with RevTK, there always was a daily "goal" of X expired kanji. I would test myself, and which ever I didnt pass I would test again later or through out the day, till I passed all the expried kanji for that day.

However with Anki, expired cards keep "trickling" in thru out the day, so it seem, or at least feels, that I always have 30 or 40 more cards to review.

Basically, I get up in the morning with 100-150 cards to review. I do those, then close anki.
Now with in the set, there are many that I pass and wont see for a while, but there are also new cards and cards I dont remember and such, and mark 0,1, maybe . Lets say that is about 30 or so.
So, later through out the day, and usually again at night, I review again, but
those 30 have now grow since other cards are expiring as well.

At first I felt the FInal Review was solving this. I would go ahead and do the final reivew, and find that I didn't have many more cards to study.  However, if you open Anki say like, two or three hours later, their will be more cards to study usually.

I do like the feature that does not make you wait like 10 minutes to see three cards, but I am still on the fence about the final reivew.

Also, I have found myself doing some weird things with grading. What is the point of grading a card at 7-12 hours later, if you do the final review a bit later that day.

I mean, basically, if I find time in the day, I am opening up anki or checking it with my keitai to see if I can do some reviews. However, I feel that having a daily finish line of some sort would be beneficial.

I wonder if other anki users agree? There is no doubt that everyone reviews differently and Resolve certainly can't please everyone( thou he seems to do his best to try

Last edited by zazen666 (2008 January 17, 9:08 am)

Personally I love the final review.  I do one set of reviews in the morning and one set at night.  If I have more time in the morning, I can start on the evening's reviews and vice versa. 

I think those of you that just want one review session should either close Anki or ignore the cards as they trickle in and wait for the next day (easier said than done, I know).