I’ve been mulling over this one for a while, and it has started to bother me. Koichi’s personal feelings aside, this is a business and we are the stakeholders. We really need transparency on what is going on with the redesign of this site, regular updates on progress should be given so we get a concrete picture of what to expect. If he’s too busy, that’s fine, but delegate someone else to do it. If they’re being posted on another forum, then forums need to be consolidated so we don’t feel like we’re off on our own little WordPress-confined island here cut off from the rest of the tofugu-world. Fragmented communication channels do not help us one bit.

I can’t remember the exact explanation, but I was told that the verb 出る「でる」 is an exception that has to take the を particle. Something about an area traversed, not necessarily a direction that you are going towards.

I think it’s 斬 and 奪.

Yes they are. It helps take a seemingly random-looking symbol and turns it into manageable pieces that can at times be quite logical. A simple example that I like is 時。Think of a sun (日) shining down upon the earth (土) and there is a dial measuring (寸) the current time, your classic sundial. Thus, 日＋土＋寸＝時. Now granted, not all symbols are going to be quite so easy to take apart like that, but it does serve to illustrate the point that if you know how a symbol is constructed it becomes so much easier to remember.

Conversely, learning readings works better in the context of practical use and vocabulary. Just arbitrarily trying to remember On and Kun readings from the void, so to speak, will only lead you to confusion.

And that is all well and good, the process should be active and engaging except how that is done exactly is going vary from individual to individual. Also, no matter how you slice and dice it, Anki and other flash card programs are an artificial environment. It is an important part of the process, but only a part of it.

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The reply box looks a little different, too. Perhaps things are in flux, not a bad thing I think. Let’s hope, anyways.

We can already access the web site through a browser on a smart phone and it will scale down to a mobile version.  Creating a separate app I imagine would just be more stuff to maintain, and I’m not sure the site authors would want that.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by  Jason.

This is one of those things that really needs to be updated for Anki 2.0 because when Koichi originally wrote this it was with 1.0 in mind.  Importing was different back then because sub-decks didn’t exist.  When I started out with textfugu I’d import a deck, then drag it into a sort of master deck to make it a sub-deck and I could easily review everything collectively.

Now there are a couple of small problems with this approach.  One is that each deck you import will have its own settings, which will start to clutter up the list of settings after a while.  The other is that to a point Anki 2.0 will complain if there are too many decks, saying that too many is inefficient and could slow it down.  So this is my routine that I go through when I import a textfugu deck into Anki 2.0 (fair warning, it’s a bit lengthy):

1. Click the Import File, browse to the deck you want to import and click Open (seems obvious but I want to be thorough here)
2. After importing, click the gear icon on the right-hand side where the deck is listed and select Options.  You’ll see an options group dialog come up.
3. There will be a gear icon on the right-hand side of the name of the options deck.  Click that and select Delete (this will remove the settings group for that deck and assign it to the Default settings instead).  I don’t think you have to do this, but it keeps things tidy.
4. Click OK to close the options window
5. Now click the name of the deck and then click Browse.  The Browser window will come up.
6. In the left-hand side is a tree-view.  Near the top you’ll see Current Deck.  Click that. (why this doesn’t immediately default when you open the browser from a deck I don’t know, but maybe a future update will address that)
7. From the Edit menu, choose “Select All” or alternatively Ctl+A.
8. Click the Change Deck button that’s in the middle of the toolbar.
9. Select the deck you want to move the cards to and press Move Cards
10. Now that the cards have now been moved to the deck you want them in, close the browser, go back to the main Decks listing, and delete the now empty deck.

Someone may have a better, less complicated way but this works for me and while it seems like a bit of work it does keep the decks and settings from getting too cluttered.

As for how often, you’ll want to review on a daily basis if possible to keep from falling behind too much on reviews.  It’s important to pace yourself, too, so you don’t spend too much time on reviews.  30 minutes at a time seems to be a good rule-of-thumb there.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by  Jason.