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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6367 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes  1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 1 of 60 06 October 2007 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
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I was just wondering about the various advantages and inconvenients of the spaced repetition softwares available. Can anyone make some sort of review and tell everyone why a certain software would be better than another one?
I looked at the screenshots of Supermemo on their website and their software looked really complicated to use. I am used to Mnemosyne but many people say it doesn't have enough functions and statistics. Let's talk about various softwares :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DonbertK Diglot Newbie United States Joined 7243 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 60 06 October 2007 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
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I myself prefer Khatzumemo (http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/khatzumemo) simply because it is web based, so I can access it wherever I want :) Edited by DonbertK on 06 October 2007 at 6:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| quendidil Diglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 6337 days ago 126 posts - 142 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 60 07 October 2007 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
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Actually, Mnemosyne would be more than suitable for your needs if you don't need to analyse every little detail of your memorization process, Khatzumemo is sort of the same except that it is web-based.
Another one is Anki, which can automatically supply the furigana for Japanese kanji in the answer block, this is sort of like Mnemosyne too but it also gives you the statistics if you want it. I personally use Anki for my Japanese due to its ease of use for furigana but Mnemosyne for my schoolwork as it seems to take less memory. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gidler Senior Member Finland Joined 6648 days ago 109 posts - 118 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Finnish* | Message 4 of 60 07 October 2007 at 5:00am | IP Logged |
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I strongly recommend Anki. Having used SuperMemo, FullRecall, Mnemosyne and others, I think that Anki is superior to its competitors in all aspects. (Except if you care about memory usage, in which case I would recommend buying more memory. It's practically free these days.) And it's free, cross-platform, GPL, being actively maintained and developed, etc. :) I'm using it for Japanese, Swedish and occasional English words.
In addition to automatically generating readings for Japanese text (it's not perfect of course, but still speeds up adding new cards), it has many other useful features. For example, you don't have to create two separate cards (lang1 to lang2 and lang2 to lang1) when adding vocabulary – Anki handles this and if you edit one later, the other one is automatically updated as well. Oh, and the scheduling algorithm works well, has some unique ideas and isn't hugely complex so you can actually understand what it's doing. EDIT: Oh, and it has a web interface as well. Syncing your cards between the offline client and the web interface is quite easy. Edited by gidler on 07 October 2007 at 5:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6622 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 60 07 October 2007 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
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Nice to see you here again, gidler!!!
I use Mnemosyne and the only feature I wish it had is choosing whether I'd like to type the word or simply to recall it and then click "show". Otherwise I'm perfectly satisfied with it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6289 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 6 of 60 08 October 2007 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
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I like Mnemosyne too. It's nice and easy to use. Whatever features it is lacking obviously aren't important to me...
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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6367 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 7 of 60 08 October 2007 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
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Why are people spending money on Supermemo if Mnemosyne is better?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6934 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 60 08 October 2007 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't tried any of those two but I assume there are some features that work better in Supermemo, or don't exist in Mnemosyne. No program has every function. The one I used (Memory Lifter) had a statistics tool which I liked, as well as good import/export options.
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