I'm using the flashcards feature to quiz both my written and my spoken vocabulary. In the latter case I usually have it show me the definition and hide the pinyin. Taking two kinds of tests confuses the rank system.
If I'm good at remembering the spoken form of a word based on its definition but not so good at remembering its written form, I can't make full use of ranks. As soon as I give myself a written test, the word's rank will get knocked down because I'm getting it wrong too often. Which is great until I give myself a spoken test, at which point it wastes a lot of time quizzing me on words I have down cold.
It would be great if a card had a distinct rank for each of the pieces of information you can quiz yourself on in a test. Or maybe have a notion of a user-definable list of test scenarios (rather than, or in addition to, being able to configure the test settings for each test session) and keep a separate list of ranks for each scenario that's added. I don't think you'd need to allow a separate list of cards for each scenario, since you can already stick the cards into categories and filter based on that.
Right now the only way I can see to do what I want is to maintain two parallel sets of flashcard categories and add every word to both copies of a category. Which is pretty cumbersome with large numbers of cards. (And I admit I'm not 100% sure it'd even work; haven't tried it yet.)
If I'm good at remembering the spoken form of a word based on its definition but not so good at remembering its written form, I can't make full use of ranks. As soon as I give myself a written test, the word's rank will get knocked down because I'm getting it wrong too often. Which is great until I give myself a spoken test, at which point it wastes a lot of time quizzing me on words I have down cold.
It would be great if a card had a distinct rank for each of the pieces of information you can quiz yourself on in a test. Or maybe have a notion of a user-definable list of test scenarios (rather than, or in addition to, being able to configure the test settings for each test session) and keep a separate list of ranks for each scenario that's added. I don't think you'd need to allow a separate list of cards for each scenario, since you can already stick the cards into categories and filter based on that.
Right now the only way I can see to do what I want is to maintain two parallel sets of flashcard categories and add every word to both copies of a category. Which is pretty cumbersome with large numbers of cards. (And I admit I'm not 100% sure it'd even work; haven't tried it yet.)