I found typing to be a massive deterrent personally. Lots of my Anki is done in bed or on trains on my phone, and I found Memrise (on a laptop) much less compelling and harder to get myself to do than Anki because of all the typing, multiple choice, and drag-n-drop (and it would switch between those which would break my focus). I don’t want to have to type ‘London’ when I’m asked what the capital of the UK is or click it on a multiple choice. Maybe if it were just typing on a fully-fledged computer, like you describe, it wouldn’t be so bad?
I still don’t think I self-deluded to any actionable extent, but I probably should mention that sometimes I would mark a card as Easy, see the answer and Just Know the answer was different from what I would have answered, undo, and mark the card as Again. I can see how you’d be much more confident I was self-deluding without that detail, which I forgot.
In my personal experience with Memrise is that it does a lot of overtesting for new words. It shows you a card that you have seen the first time and marked as true again in the same session.
I agree that dragging and clicking on multiple choice items don’t work well on the laptop. Typing doesn’t work well on phones.
Multitouch is simple a completely different way of interacting with a device.
On a multitouch device you would want ideally to have to a map and simple click on the country on the map to select it. Speed Anatomy does that really well but it doesn’t do spaced repetition.
At the moment I’m working on getting binary choices on phones right and afterwards I will go to challenges such as clicking on items on a map.
As those kinds of answers can be scored automatically I’m also getting rid of self evaluation. I want to instead replace it with calculating confidence in the card via things like pressure, time taking to answer and where a button get’s pressed. If you want you can then click all buttons for card where you are sure on the top and all buttons where you are unsure on the bottom and the App will automatically learn your pattern.
Smart users who want to tell the App their confidence (so that the app calculates intervals better) can and the average user that doesn’t care isn’t distracted and the app might even find unconscious patterns.
I found typing to be a massive deterrent personally. Lots of my Anki is done in bed or on trains on my phone, and I found Memrise (on a laptop) much less compelling and harder to get myself to do than Anki because of all the typing, multiple choice, and drag-n-drop (and it would switch between those which would break my focus). I don’t want to have to type ‘London’ when I’m asked what the capital of the UK is or click it on a multiple choice. Maybe if it were just typing on a fully-fledged computer, like you describe, it wouldn’t be so bad?
I still don’t think I self-deluded to any actionable extent, but I probably should mention that sometimes I would mark a card as Easy, see the answer and Just Know the answer was different from what I would have answered, undo, and mark the card as Again. I can see how you’d be much more confident I was self-deluding without that detail, which I forgot.
In my personal experience with Memrise is that it does a lot of overtesting for new words. It shows you a card that you have seen the first time and marked as true again in the same session.
I agree that dragging and clicking on multiple choice items don’t work well on the laptop. Typing doesn’t work well on phones. Multitouch is simple a completely different way of interacting with a device.
On a multitouch device you would want ideally to have to a map and simple click on the country on the map to select it. Speed Anatomy does that really well but it doesn’t do spaced repetition. At the moment I’m working on getting binary choices on phones right and afterwards I will go to challenges such as clicking on items on a map.
As those kinds of answers can be scored automatically I’m also getting rid of self evaluation. I want to instead replace it with calculating confidence in the card via things like pressure, time taking to answer and where a button get’s pressed. If you want you can then click all buttons for card where you are sure on the top and all buttons where you are unsure on the bottom and the App will automatically learn your pattern.
Smart users who want to tell the App their confidence (so that the app calculates intervals better) can and the average user that doesn’t care isn’t distracted and the app might even find unconscious patterns.