radioman - do you really think that button-holding interface is better? I'm not generally very fond of it since it doesn't provide enough feedback - could have your finger slip off the button without knowing it - though I guess adding a little vibration when it starts / stops might help with that. Starting instantly is a matter of preloading the audio input library before you hit the record button - not sure how easy that is to do on WM, though.
taijidan - a forecast like that is kind of along the lines of what we're thinking, yes. With that HSK module idea I think I'd rather just have a status report for a category and its subcategories - that way you could use HSK, PCR, or any other common flashcard set you want; we might as well take advantage of the painstakingly-developed single-card-in-multiple-categories feature and go by category inclusion rather than some fixed / built-in HSK list.
thph2006 - #1 is definitely in the pipeline. #2 is actually already doable; just check the "Allow edits during sessions" box in the Flashcards panel in Preferences; we disable it by default since this can occasionally have weird consequences during that session (cards showing up with the wrong number of syllables in multi-choice, say). #3 is waiting on our example sentence database feature but should be easy to implement after that. Good idea on #4. #5 is likewise already possible with "Allow edits during sessions" enabled, but again disabled by default since it can have weird effects on the current session. #6 I'm not sure how much more we're going to develop the pure frequency mode algorithm in general - I'm thinking the new repetition-interval-prioritized option will largely supplant it, though we'll likely leave it around in its current form at least for a few releases for the sake of people who really like that particular study mode. Good idea on #7. #8 feeds off of the character component database as discussed before, #9 is an intriguing possibility - I'd love to integrate it with the category system, though. Maybe we could provide the option to have a list of a few user-selected categories come up before advancing to the next card - you'd just tap on items in that list to toggle whether or not the card was a member of that particular category.
2.1 will probably beat desktop to market, though, 2.1's closely tied with the appearance of flashcards on iPhone and there's enough competitive pressure on that front that we really need to get that squared away before we can turn our attention to the desktop version.
llammamama - good point on replacing both simplified and traditional. And yes, we really do need to do something about multi-line selection.
Sarevok - well in general for the sake of database cleanliness we'd much rather have people storing example sentences in a dedicated example sentence database than a notes one - easier to do other things with that data anyway.
jiacheng - yeah, probably best to consider both of those usages.
mfcb - very good point on long-term predictions. I like your idea of different curves for different recall levels; however, it should also be possible to make a pretty accurate single prediction curve based on past recall rates; we could probably mine enough data for that from our existing card statistics, but if not we could certainly start keeping track of the data we'd need to do it well in the future. I agree with the argument put forward by the creator of Anki that altering card spacings based on overall performance is probably a bad idea - too easy for one wrong card to drag a lot of others down with it - but that doesn't mean we can't use that overall performance data to more accurately predict how quickly you can expect to learn cards going forward, and perhaps also to inform your decision-making about whether to increase / decrease the rate with which you add new cards (or to alter the Aggressiveness setting).
sfrrr - yeah, that fits in with a lot of other stuff we're talking about (and makes a ton of sense in general).
goulniky - you can already turn off most Pinyin rendering simply by setting the Mandarin pronunciation mode to "Skip" in the Display panel of Preferences - would you like the option to display Pinyin in gray in addition to that? Or to, say, hide it in example sentences but show it in headwords?
taijidan - a forecast like that is kind of along the lines of what we're thinking, yes. With that HSK module idea I think I'd rather just have a status report for a category and its subcategories - that way you could use HSK, PCR, or any other common flashcard set you want; we might as well take advantage of the painstakingly-developed single-card-in-multiple-categories feature and go by category inclusion rather than some fixed / built-in HSK list.
thph2006 - #1 is definitely in the pipeline. #2 is actually already doable; just check the "Allow edits during sessions" box in the Flashcards panel in Preferences; we disable it by default since this can occasionally have weird consequences during that session (cards showing up with the wrong number of syllables in multi-choice, say). #3 is waiting on our example sentence database feature but should be easy to implement after that. Good idea on #4. #5 is likewise already possible with "Allow edits during sessions" enabled, but again disabled by default since it can have weird effects on the current session. #6 I'm not sure how much more we're going to develop the pure frequency mode algorithm in general - I'm thinking the new repetition-interval-prioritized option will largely supplant it, though we'll likely leave it around in its current form at least for a few releases for the sake of people who really like that particular study mode. Good idea on #7. #8 feeds off of the character component database as discussed before, #9 is an intriguing possibility - I'd love to integrate it with the category system, though. Maybe we could provide the option to have a list of a few user-selected categories come up before advancing to the next card - you'd just tap on items in that list to toggle whether or not the card was a member of that particular category.
2.1 will probably beat desktop to market, though, 2.1's closely tied with the appearance of flashcards on iPhone and there's enough competitive pressure on that front that we really need to get that squared away before we can turn our attention to the desktop version.
llammamama - good point on replacing both simplified and traditional. And yes, we really do need to do something about multi-line selection.
Sarevok - well in general for the sake of database cleanliness we'd much rather have people storing example sentences in a dedicated example sentence database than a notes one - easier to do other things with that data anyway.
jiacheng - yeah, probably best to consider both of those usages.
mfcb - very good point on long-term predictions. I like your idea of different curves for different recall levels; however, it should also be possible to make a pretty accurate single prediction curve based on past recall rates; we could probably mine enough data for that from our existing card statistics, but if not we could certainly start keeping track of the data we'd need to do it well in the future. I agree with the argument put forward by the creator of Anki that altering card spacings based on overall performance is probably a bad idea - too easy for one wrong card to drag a lot of others down with it - but that doesn't mean we can't use that overall performance data to more accurately predict how quickly you can expect to learn cards going forward, and perhaps also to inform your decision-making about whether to increase / decrease the rate with which you add new cards (or to alter the Aggressiveness setting).
sfrrr - yeah, that fits in with a lot of other stuff we're talking about (and makes a ton of sense in general).
goulniky - you can already turn off most Pinyin rendering simply by setting the Mandarin pronunciation mode to "Skip" in the Display panel of Preferences - would you like the option to display Pinyin in gray in addition to that? Or to, say, hide it in example sentences but show it in headwords?
