aexyl93
New member
Registered: 2010-05-02
Posts: 2
The site is very nice and helpful, though I have just one minor suggestion/complaint.
In the reviewing section, I don't really like the selection of shortcut keys to answer how well you remembered the card because I usually try to write the kanji down when reviewing, and when I do that I either have to put my pencil down and go back to the mouse and then back to pencil, or have the other hand awkwardly placed on the keyboard to press the shortcut keys. It's really not that big of a problem, though it does get a little annoying.
I was wondering if you could add or replace the shortcut keys with different ones. Such as adding or replacing N for No with 1 and Y for Yes with 2 and E for Easy with 3 or something like that. Adding to or replacing the existing shortcuts with shortcuts such as those would be helpful. The shortcut for flipping the card is fine as it is though. I know this is a fairly unimportant suggestion, but it would be very much appreciated if it was used.
Off-Topic: And for a site that's all about kanji, how is it that it's spell checker doesn't recognize the word 'kanji'? >_>
Last edited by aexyl93 (2010 September 04, 2:12 pm)
axlmccracken
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From: USA
Registered: 2008-05-26
Posts: 18
Good suggestion for the shortcut keys. Maybe the options page could include a set of options for a default set and an alternate set of shortcuts (or a default set and a user defined set.) I could really see myself using it for sure.
aexyl93 wrote:
Off-Topic: And for a site that's all about kanji, how is it that it's spell checker doesn't recognize the word 'kanji'? >_>
I always thought the spell checker was in browser side rather than server side, but I may be mistaken. You should just be able to right-click it and select add to dictionary.
Last edited by axlmccracken (2010 September 04, 2:21 pm)
Having 2=Yes, 3=Easy would greatly worsen the Anki confusion, because it would cause the wrong thing to happen rather than nothing happening, and could therefore go unnoticed for some time.
1=No, 2/3=Yes, 4=Easy would be compatible with Anki (but would conflict with Mnemosyne). It looks like the vast majority of people on this forum use Anki, but that may not extend to users of the main site.
Last edited by bladethecoder (2010 September 07, 8:07 pm)
Sebastian
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Registered: 2008-09-09
Posts: 582
What about having the hotkeys as configurable options?
Is it possible?
If it isn't possible, or isn't worth the effort, users unsatisfied with the default hotkeys can use Customize Your Web in Firefox to choose their own.
For example, you could have UP = Show answer, LEFT = No, DOWN = Yes and RIGHT = Easy, or something like that.
Last edited by Sebastian (2010 September 07, 9:53 pm)
People who use RevTK and Anki at the same time are few. So there is no need to make the answers work the same way. Those few who want to do reviews on both side can simply continue to use the RevTK shortcuts as they are used to to avoid confusion.
People who review RTK on both at the same time are few; but I was thinking of people reviewing RTK here at the same time as reviewing vocab/sentences on Anki. I suspect that is more than 50% of the forum, at least at some point in each person's learning process.
And my concern was with the problem I described in my first post in this thread. For the first few weeks after I started using Anki, each time I came to review on RevTK I would try to use the Anki shortcuts by mistake. As it was, nothing happened, so each time I quickly realised my error and started using Y/N. But if the number keys had miscategorized the cards instead, this would have caused endless frustration. Maybe I'm the only one and my brain is just weird 
Last edited by bladethecoder (2010 September 08, 7:38 pm)
