Supermemo: A great memorization program
Lately I've been using a wonderful little flashcard/learning program called supermemo on the palm platform to study for the level1 (maybe this year!?). I'm making a number of card sets that other's might find
useful. I'll post more as I clean them up a bit:
Although I do recommend the program generally, note that it tries a bit too hard to display nice text in graphics mode, so unfortunately the current version cannot use hi-res Japanese fonts. But it's still usable and hopefully the author will come out with a hi-res version soon!
useful. I'll post more as I clean them up a bit:
- 2000 most common kanji (for writing practice). You may need reset the database to start fresh. Please try this out and let me know what you think. You may also want to play with the template after you upload it to suit your studying style (recognition vs. writing, e.g.).
Although I do recommend the program generally, note that it tries a bit too hard to display nice text in graphics mode, so unfortunately the current version cannot use hi-res Japanese fonts. But it's still usable and hopefully the author will come out with a hi-res version soon!
3 Comments:
Todd,
Many thanks for posting these databases. I'd like to join the effort, but could use some technical advice.
I'm using my fiancé's hand-me-down Palm V with SuperMemo 1.1.1 and romaji databases I create in tab-delimited format. I'm also running KingKanji, but I'd like to learn how to use kanji & kana with SuperMemo. I tried downloading sm_2000kanji.pdb, but of course I'm just seeing garbage characters.
Can someone point me in the right direction? (And yes, I'll understand if you say "please come back when you have a Palm device from the current millenium.")
You probably have a western palm machine with no ability to display Japanese. To show Japanese, you'll need to install some sort of driver. I recall two such programs:
- CJKOS
- JOS
It's been a very long time since I looked at either, but I doubt the fonts are as good as those on a real Japanese palmos device.
Thanks for all this info. I am seeing sm_2000kanji.pdb just fine, but I can't seem to create my own databases. Can you please give me your procedure for creating the database? I have them in Excel right now. Saving as tab-del-text and then SMCONV makes changes the hiragana to question marks; saving as unicode text then smconv makes for an unreadable database. Thanks
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