Re: [lojban] Re: Smart.fm going on subscription model.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:34:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Anyways, I don't think this is a big loss. I initially used
> > smart.fm and liked it, until I tried Anki, and learned how
> > pathetic smart.fm is. You literally spend at least twice as much
> > time to review the same amount of material, and you don't even
> > remember it as well because the algorithm is so bad. Also,
> > smart.fm is multiple choice, which is not nearly as good for
> > memory as complete recall like in Anki.
> 
> A lot of us enjoyed the multiple choice experience more, however;
> it's much less subjective.  I often find myself agonizing over
> which "how well did you remember this?" button to push, which
> slows everything down and makes it annoying and a bit frustrating.
> 
> If it simply had "did you get this right?", and picked how long to
> wait to quiz me again based on how long I took to answer, that
> would be much better, for example.

Doing the Android Anki today, I remembered one other thing that was
unique to smart.fm: it was session based rather than day based.
This meant that (1) you could set your own pace of study a bit
better and (2) missing a day didn't add a huge amount of work the
next day.

I found that really nice.

-Robin

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