I agree the biggest barrier to entry with Anki is initially setting it up for the beginner user but once you get over that really big hurdle its extremely useful and my results in college were very real when I finally started using it. The main thing with Anki is that it has to be used with the material you're studying and is pretty bad if you try to use it as your own.
RtK/RtH is similar in that way that if you simply try to read it without atleast making paper flash cards you won't get any use out of it.
It seems your app is actually pretty similar in that it breaks down the characters into simpler parts and then builds on those parts.
Agreed, there seem to be good decks for Anki that follow different books or courses (Skritter does this too).
With regards to Whizz Learning, we definitely looked at Anki, Skritter, SuperMemo, etc. to see how they help people remember things. I felt like the the management of their own deck (or copying a bad one) can turn someone off from the beginning. We tried to make it simpler in how we grow the deck.
The system itself does try to break characters down into simpler components or symbols. It came from a neurolinguist that created the system to help stroke victims to relearn Chinese. There is some interesting science behind it that we are going to post about soon.
We just submitted to the Apple store for our first version. I would love to get your thoughts on it when we are approved.
Any other thoughts you have on Anki or other learning products are very interesting to us.
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I agree the biggest barrier to entry with Anki is initially setting it up for the beginner user but once you get over that really big hurdle its extremely useful and my results in college were very real when I finally started using it. The main thing with Anki is that it has to be used with the material you're studying and is pretty bad if you try to use it as your own.
RtK/RtH is similar in that way that if you simply try to read it without atleast making paper flash cards you won't get any use out of it.
It seems your app is actually pretty similar in that it breaks down the characters into simpler parts and then builds on those parts.
Agreed, there seem to be good decks for Anki that follow different books or courses (Skritter does this too).
With regards to Whizz Learning, we definitely looked at Anki, Skritter, SuperMemo, etc. to see how they help people remember things. I felt like the the management of their own deck (or copying a bad one) can turn someone off from the beginning. We tried to make it simpler in how we grow the deck.
The system itself does try to break characters down into simpler components or symbols. It came from a neurolinguist that created the system to help stroke victims to relearn Chinese. There is some interesting science behind it that we are going to post about soon.
We just submitted to the Apple store for our first version. I would love to get your thoughts on it when we are approved.
Any other thoughts you have on Anki or other learning products are very interesting to us.