This is really a general question. I am using both Pleco and Skritter for flashcards. I prefer Pleco except for one thing: if I fill a catagory in Pleco and want to test myself, it says (now) 313 questions to go. I can do it at my own speed, but I am always aware that I can't finish this file in one sitting. I realize it's really the same in Skritter - in both cases I am actually up to date, but Skritter shows me 0 to do, whereas Pleco says 300 or 400 or 500 to do. I find the Skritter more exciting to do. The Pleco category size seems to weigh me down a bit.
Should I be doing things differently? I would prefer to have my vocabulary all in Pleco and add my new vocab there: Pleco has all the different tests I could want, has audio, has all the dictionaries.Skritter has its own not-so-good-for-me definitions, e.g. in Pleco I can click through the dictionaries for other meanings, but Skritter shows me three pronunciations and five meanings for one character and I don't need them yet. It also has useless example sentences, at least on the Web, and highly peculiar mnemonics seem to crop up (I believe those are popular with some users though). In Pleco, I love the Chinese-Chinese dictionary and if I want example sentences from the dictionaries, there they are. (There is a Pleco clickthrough on the IOS app for Skritter which I use, but it obviously slows things down).
So the only thing I really prefer about Skritter is that it is somehow "sexier" to use! (I don't value the writing all that much, I think it's overemphasized, but I know it's a personal thing).
Thanks for any suggestions - I think I have 2 years left with Skritter iOS so no hurry, but I hope I made myself clear. I have been through the Help file once but as you know, Pleco is so complex that I wanted to ask here. Perhaps I should be playing with the settings I don't understand.
Margaret
Should I be doing things differently? I would prefer to have my vocabulary all in Pleco and add my new vocab there: Pleco has all the different tests I could want, has audio, has all the dictionaries.Skritter has its own not-so-good-for-me definitions, e.g. in Pleco I can click through the dictionaries for other meanings, but Skritter shows me three pronunciations and five meanings for one character and I don't need them yet. It also has useless example sentences, at least on the Web, and highly peculiar mnemonics seem to crop up (I believe those are popular with some users though). In Pleco, I love the Chinese-Chinese dictionary and if I want example sentences from the dictionaries, there they are. (There is a Pleco clickthrough on the IOS app for Skritter which I use, but it obviously slows things down).
So the only thing I really prefer about Skritter is that it is somehow "sexier" to use! (I don't value the writing all that much, I think it's overemphasized, but I know it's a personal thing).
Thanks for any suggestions - I think I have 2 years left with Skritter iOS so no hurry, but I hope I made myself clear. I have been through the Help file once but as you know, Pleco is so complex that I wanted to ask here. Perhaps I should be playing with the settings I don't understand.
Margaret