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batterseapower / pinyin-toolkit

A plugin for the Anki Spaced Repetition System (http://ichi2.net/anki/)
http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/
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Create a Pinyin Toolkit Blank Deck and add it to the deck browser #52

Closed Nick3C closed 15 years ago

Nick3C commented 15 years ago

Do this, on the basis that users shouldn't have to implement so many changes to their decks at once when we can supply a sample for them that they can download (or at worst they can copy and paste the fields).

In fact I would probably suggest two decks: Simple and Advanced (one with more complex models and one with much simpler models).

batterseapower commented 15 years ago

Yes! You may have noticed that I added a link from the "Get it" website page (http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/getit.html) to a "demo deck" which I suggested users install after the Toolkit, but I haven't actually got around to creating it yet :-)

Nick3C commented 15 years ago

lol, I hadn't noticed. At least we continue to think along similar lines

batterseapower commented 15 years ago

I have a demo deck created as part of the new site. See http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/files/pytk-demo-deck-0.9.9.8.1-v1.zip

Closing the issue as fixed.

Nick3C commented 15 years ago

Hmmm, ok. There are quite a lot of ways that this deck can be made better by altering the card templates, model order, and even fonts so that it gives a better user experience. Other things, such as putting the MW on the cards is just a bad idea, you won't learn them (because of the minimum information principle and they will get in the way and distract you from the main vocab It will only get in the way [see http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm#minimum information principle]. Finally the deck doesn't make full use of the power of having these things auto-generated for you.

I really don't want to put up so-so show decks because it lets down the way the final product looks. I know I said I would look at this and I honestly will, I'm just rather busy at the moment because I'm trying to catch up with my dissertation (due in 6 weeks and well behind schedule) That's why I've cut back on the code-editing too. :)

batterseapower commented 15 years ago

I agree the deck is kind of rubbish for actual learning, but I slapped everything into the template because it looks really pretty as a demo :-)

Will gladly replace it with a better deck constructed with some actual care an attention when that arrives.

Nick3C commented 15 years ago

done. uploaded to website and included in a sample directory in the plugin.

I will upload them to the main anki hosting (so they can be downloading from within Anki) after we go live with the release.

Nick3C commented 15 years ago

changed my mind... no harm to upload them now as a taster... it's done... what do you think?

batterseapower commented 15 years ago

Decks look good to me - nice work.