Coming back to this.....
rdearman wrote:Personally I wouldn't bother doing all of that. I would simply download anki load and some cards and start using it to memorise vocabulary. All of that other stuff just seems to be procrastination to me.
I agree with the bolded.
juman wrote:So I have been testing this for a while now and even though the drilling generated is similar using all the different tables gives too much of an overhead. After just a few repetitions I spend more time trying to find the next date to to the next review then I spend on the actual review.
That said to keep this fun the review needs to go faster which comes at a cost of the SRS logic it is currently based on. Currently I have one book I write the first entries in and then I have a loose leaf per day of future items to review. Next up is to revisit the tables and seeing if they can be simplyfied or if I can find a way moving this closer to a Leitner system/Gold list method somehow but still keep the feature where hard words are repeated more often then easy words with the initial steps being quite frequent.
Given your feature goals, there seems to be a ready made solution :
Self contained - in notebook/s or within loose leafs (
Anki phone is self contained, doesn't require multiple notebooks)
Portable - I travel so I want to be able to bring it with me (
Anki phone)
Without computer need - Reviews shouldn't need a computer
Phase out - Have a definition off when something is learnt (
Anki phone - turn of cards or delete them)
Gamified - Possibility to track things added/learnt (
Anki phone)
Handwritten - I feel that writing things out by hand helps a lot in the learning process (
Anki phone + a piece of paper)
Simple - Simple enough to manage that the effort to use it is low (
Anki phone, has a short learning curve)
Honest question, are you still convinced that your system meets most of your requirements more than a program?