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jdlorimer / incremental-reading

Anki add-on providing incremental reading features
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/935264945
ISC License
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Not a feature request, just a question... #78

Closed p2635 closed 6 years ago

p2635 commented 6 years ago

I'm really interested in this add on but.. there are no instructions. Can someone please teach me how to use it?? If someone can just show me the way, I might even make a youtube video on how to use it to help others like me.

aleksejrs commented 6 years ago

Manual for the previous version (the service used in a link at AnkiWeb can't show the page for me): https://github.com/aleksejrs/anki-2.0-vsa-and-ire/blob/for_everyone/doc/View_Size_Adjust_and_Incremental_Reading_Extension_addons_-_Google_Groups.html

p2635 commented 6 years ago

Thanks @aleksejrs. I read through some of it and I understand the features now.

The problem is, there isn't like a step by step guide on how to actually use this in the real world. It would be good to get specific examples of how everyone uses it. For example:

  1. What kinds of articles do you use IR for?
  2. How many articles (cards) do you keep in your 'organiser' queue at any given time?
  3. What is the difference between highlighting and extracting? (aren't they the same?)
  4. If you're just extracting the most important parts of the article (into individual cards), what is the point of keeping it in the organiser?
aleksejrs commented 6 years ago

I don't use it much, especially now that I have v3 and v4 installed and v3 (for Anki 2.0) was somewhat broken or old (so I review in Anki 2.0 with my add-ons, and IR in Anki 2.1 with working IR), but also because I had many useless extracts and didn't know what to do with them, even despite priorities that are "correct" for normal cards. I am unable to use the best learning methods and don't know what to prioritize. So I have > 1500 IR cards, am adding more and forgetting about them.

  1. As an article on IR at supermemo.com says, Wikipedia articles may be good for IR because (something like) they are written by many people and there is not much context to hold in your head to be able to understand a sentence. Also when I needed to read Terms of Service or similar, IR worked.

  2. There is no bottom limit. The top limit depends on your ability to prioritize them, I guess. Somebody added a different mode for that, but mode switching has a dangerous bug with filtered decks (I use them to prioritize everything): issue #76.

  3. Highlighting does not create new cards, it's just coloring.

  4. After you have extracted all the important parts, you can delete the original article.

p2635 commented 6 years ago

Thanks again. I just have 1 more question. For number 3, my question was really 'What is the usefulness highlighting vs extracting?'.

aleksejrs commented 6 years ago

I use it to discard useless parts that are not clearly worth deleting (and I think there was no "delete" key in v2).

p2635 commented 6 years ago

Thanks, I'm gonna close this now.