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Anki vs iknow vs Memrise.com vs supermemo.net - Spaced based Flashcard applications

I would like to talk about anki first. This is the first flashcard program that i used, you can download this good flashcard program on any kind of computer and it is open source, which is really cool.  There is also something called ankiweb so you can upload your lists and download other user's lists.  you can also do your studying on ankiweb also.  What happens is it shows you a item and you rate it by [ again, good, easy, very easy]  and it shows you how long you will wait to see that item again. I don't use it now and never really used it for prolong periods of time because it's hard for me to know which button should be pressed for optimal learning.

 I used iknow when it was called smart.fm and i studied 4033 words and it told me I mastered 2270 words.  over about a year I accumulated 36 hours and 57 minutes of time spent on this service.  I really did like it however today you have to pay to use the service.  currently the statistics and metadata on your studying seems really awesome although a lot of that I did not get to use on smart.fm 

What makes this better than anki is it gives you multiple choice questions and quizes that you type in your answer.

Memrise is pretty new and is my favorite, it feels more organic than iknow.  there is an option to "plant" new seeds and in a planting session you plant 5 seeds , It shows you the word , gives multiple choice , then you type it in.  this is the only time you see the same word in the same session, vs iknow where you can keep getting the same word in the session,  it feels like you can progress faster and learn more words.  you still get the spaced based advantage if you missed a word but it's just not annoying like smart.fm can be.   One more reason why this is my favorite flashcard service is you get points and you can still get some credit or points if you misspelled or got close to your target answer.  There are also volunteer curators of the dictionary's that can fix errors in user contributed lists, and memrise also tries to limit re-learning the same word in different lists.  Another reason that really makes memrise superior is it's use of mem's these are comments/pictures or anything that can help you remember an item.  anyone can add them and you can choose your favorite if there are multiple mems for an item,  it shows you them when you are planting words and when you made a mistake on a word.  This makes memrise VERY powerfull. I recommend everybody should try it.

Supermemo is very similar to anki where you choose *if* you got it right.  and there are lists that are free and lists that you pay for.  I used it a bit before i used smart.fm and it's my least favorite of the 4 

My Life As a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland - 5 Stars

My Life As a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I absolutly loved reading this book, This girl wakes up in the hospital after having nightmares of a terible accident, and the nurses tell her she almost OD'd, She finds a misterious note and some kind of smoothie, that is supposed to be medicine, the note gives her a job at the morque - Then she starts craving Brains, another note tells her "If you crave it, Eat it" And so she gives in and snarts eating the brains leftover from the autopsies, She goes on to meet other zombies and even a zombie hunter.



Really cool read. Its a page turner and it is really well written, I can't wait untill book 2



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Sword of Axia

Sword of Axia by Eric Meyer

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


Yeah I got halfway through and ust did not want to read anymore, The problem was the scenes where to short, one planet was completly taken over with no explanation how, and although i liked how they took over the food planet interestingly I just could not bring myself to finish it,



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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I really liked this book i recommend it to anyone. It was sshort and moved along quickly. Going to read more of the author



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