Ir requires some furigana modding.

アーバン・カイル
吾判 ・海流

One thing I wish I know let you do was combine the steps after you’d learned them well enough. I think getting a set of 20 words max makes it to easy.

As far as I know, it’s fine.

@missing – That’s a pretty good article. Like the author, I became fed up with the snobbish attitude so many people adopt when it comes to the preferences of others (especially in regards to music).
When it becomes cool to dislike what is popular, the hipsters become the trendy and everything gets flipped upside down. Now it’s the hipsters that, hipsters though they are, listen to pop because it’s not popular among their fellow hipsters. They are therefore cool^2. This process continues on until nobody knows what they actually like and what they are pressured to like (or dislike) in the pursuit of (or flight from) the approval of their peers.
Why can’t people just honestly asses for themselves their own preferences and indulge them in peace?

You’re assuming that the spacing and repetition method used by iKnow is of the same or higher efficiency than that of anki. It may well be the case that you feel like you are moving a lot faster but will have more problems with retention later.
Note that I’m not saying that this is the case. I honestly have no idea. But, if I remember correctly and if it hasn’t changed, iKnow eventually stops showing you material once you have “mastered it”. I never liked that policy because as soon as you stop reviewing, you start forgetting. Of course if you are using the language and these are the most common words, then that shouldn’t be a problem anyway.

I mix it up quite a bit. I use the computer for all my flash card stuff. As far as physical lists of words or kanji go, I think they get too long too fast. I’ll agree that as far as formatting goes, it’s a lot easier to keep track of things on paper. You can write a kanji in the upper corner of the sheet, the readings and stroke order beside it, some example words below, with a sentence for each. Ah, no nice and organized and it takes far less time than trying to do things on a computer. Someday technology will be to a point where we can simply explain what we want and not have to mess with margins and rulers and text boxes etc etc. We’ve come a long way but there are still some fairly simple things that computers can’t come close to humans at doing.

My physical notebooks are filled with exercises from some other books (textfugu practice pages pending…) with kanji writing practice filling all available empty space. With that said, I rarely go back and look through my notes. Never have. Not for Japanese or anything else I’ve studied. It just piles up and I eventually throw it out…but I think writing helps anyway.

I am a sucker for hard copies though. When I was teaching physics in the States, I often had to print out all the lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, tests, quizes and so on and lay them out to get a sense of what was going on on which day. The same is true for calendars. If I try to plan something out using google calendar or something and just leave it on the computer, it means nothing to me. Gotta have it on the wall, looming over you at all times.

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